When the day is hot, love to sweat, especially fat people, a move a sweat, let people all over the body uncomfortable. In fact, the sweat glands are the body’s own “air conditioning”, is the body’s most natural maintenance products, to the summer sweat less, if the cold, skin disease, insomnia will find the door, the incidence of heart disease is exponentially higher, a healthy sweat on health benefits, but sweat is also the body’s barometer, some abnormal sweating signal is the body issued a silent The body’s silent warning.
For example, if you are not sweating, but you are sweating a lot, it means that you may be sweating abnormally, and if you are sitting still and sweating a lot, you are undoubtedly sweating abnormally. Simply put, if the sweating is not caused by exercise, thick clothing or heat, or if you sweat profusely with a little exercise, it means that your body may have an abnormal condition and should be taken seriously.
Abnormal sweating from the head
Stomach fire
The head is the meeting of all the yang, and the yang energy should be the most sufficient and the strongest. If the head sweats but the whole body does not sweat or sweats little, or sweats often, it may mean that Yang Qi is a little weak, (for children with a strong metabolism, it is normal for the head to sweat more), in addition, it is also related to a strong stomach fire.
Suggestions: get enough sleep and eat more warm tonic foods such as jujube, beef, yam, honey and poria. You can also brew wolfberry tea to drink every day.
If the forehead often sweats a lot, Chinese medicine believes that it may be caused by hyperactivity of liver Yang.
Suggestions: usually try to keep a calm state of mind, less angry, to ensure sufficient sleep, otherwise it is easy to lead to Yin deficiency, hyperactive liver yang. Brew wolfberry tea every day to drink, has a calming effect on the liver.
Nose sweating
Insufficient lung energy
If the nose always sweats, it means that the lung qi is insufficient and needs to be adjusted to replenish it. Western medicine considers this to be a sign of low immunity, which needs to be boosted.
Suggestion: Tap your legs with both hands every day and press the left and right sides of your legs, because this is the part of the body where the lung meridian is distributed, and by tapping and stimulating, it can play a role in regulating the lung meridian.
Abnormal sweating in the neck
Endocrine disorders
The neck sweat gland is not too much, if often sweating, may be related to endocrine imbalance, but also with the internal damp heat has a certain relationship, due to the dampness stagnant, resulting in the internal Qi is not smooth, often manifested as the upper body or above the neck sweating.
Suggestions: usually regulate endocrine mainly from diet and exercise, supplemented by medication if necessary. Eat more high-protein foods and drink more water.
Underarm sweating
Excessive sweat glands or excessive diet
Because a large number of sweat glands are distributed in the armpits, they are more likely to sweat. If the sweat secretion is excessive and smells great, it may indicate that the daily diet is too heavy, eating too much onion, garlic, onion and other foods.
Suggestion: If you are diagnosed with excessive sweat glands, you can go to the hospital for easy and effective laser treatment. Also, eat a light diet with lots of fruits and vegetables.
Sweating on the chest
Spleen and stomach disorder
If the chest often sweats, Chinese medicine believes that this is a sign of spleen and stomach disharmony, indicating that the blood circulation in the body is very slow and oxygen transport is not smooth.
Suggestions: do not be overly anxious, eat less greasy and cold food, usually drink water with astragalus and jujube to relieve the symptoms, you can relieve stress and regulate your mood through appropriate exercise, such as jogging, taijiquan, eight-danjin, etc.
Abnormal sweating in the heart of the hands and feet
Blood deficiency
If you are emotionally tense, excited or scared, your palms or feet will easily sweat, which is considered by Chinese medicine to be a manifestation of spleen loss of transportation, damp heat in the spleen and stomach and blood deficiency.
Suggestion: Press and rub the abdomen daily after meals, first 30 turns clockwise, then 30 turns counterclockwise. In addition, control the amount of food, avoid raw and cold food, to seven or eight minutes full is good.
Abnormal sweating in sugar lovers
Unstable blood sugar
Li Qingju, chief physician of the Department of Endocrinology at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, introduced that if the blood sugar of diabetic patients is not well controlled, the patients may also develop autonomic neuropathy. If there is a lesion in the nerves regulating the secretion of sweat glands, it is usually manifested as increased sweating or asymmetrical sweating areas in the upper limbs or chest, and there may be a lot of sweating at normal room temperature or even profuse sweating.
Hypoglycemia is a condition that can easily occur in diabetic patients. When hypoglycemia occurs in diabetic patients due to medication, diet or exercise, symptoms such as palpitations, anxiety, sweating and hunger can occur. Therefore, when a diabetic patient experiences heavy sweating with the above symptoms, he or she should consider whether it is caused by the cause of hypoglycemia.
It is especially worth paying attention to the fact that some patients may have night sweats and also feel headache and strain in the morning, these symptoms suggest that nighttime hypoglycemia may occur.
Suggestion: When a patient has nighttime hypoglycemia, he or she must seek help from a doctor in time to avoid danger or accidents. To prevent the occurrence of hypoglycemia, diabetic patients must carry with them some small snacks that can elevate blood sugar in case of emergency.
sweating all over the body
Qi deficiency
Regardless of winter or summer, sweating often occurs during daytime inactivity or light activity. These people are often characterized by weakness, low speech, poor appetite, and susceptibility to colds, which are considered by Chinese medicine to be signs of qi deficiency.
Suggestion: Diet can choose yam, soy milk, beef and mutton, etc. Also, stewed chicken or cavity bone with party ginseng or astragalus can be used to nourish the organism and relieve qi deficiency.
Sweating while sleeping
Yin deficiency
Sweating while sleeping and waking up to stop sweating is called “night sweating” in Chinese medicine. These people often have hot hands and feet, irritable heart, red and hot face, dry mouth and throat, etc., which is considered by Chinese medicine as a manifestation of yin deficiency.
Suggestions: You can choose lily, pear and other nourishing products, eat less lamb, onion, onion, ginger, garlic and other hot foods, but also use sage, maitake, schisandra or American ginseng to drink water.
In addition, left and right half of the body or upper and lower half of the body sweating is partial sweating, mostly seen in rheumatism, hemiplegia patients, sometimes is also a signal of stroke near the body. The frontal sweating is limited to the forehead, if the sweating is small and there are no other symptoms, it is a normal phenomenon. If it occurs in a patient, it may be a sign of aggravation of the disease. Inter-mammary sweating limited to between the two breasts may be due to mental fatigue, physical exertion and injury to the heart and spleen. Genital sweating sweating limited to the area around the genitals is often associated with kidney disease. Sweating of the extremities such as hands and feet is mostly caused by blood deficiency and yang deficiency.
Abnormal sweat color
Problems with liver, lungs and gallbladder
Zhang Kuijun, deputy chief physician of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine at Dalian Central Hospital, said that, the real sweat is colorless. If there is a yellow color is due to the chemical reaction of microorganisms to some trace elements in the sweat. Also, certain people with physical illnesses will have sweat of a different color. When the sweat appears different from the normal color, you should consider if you are sick and need to seek medical attention.
Yellow sweat
The yellow color of sweat is caused by a high concentration of a substance called bilirubin in the blood, mainly due to liver and gallbladder diseases, such as acute and chronic hepatitis, cholecystitis, cirrhosis of the liver, etc. In addition, excessive consumption of fruits and vegetables such as carrots, oranges and mandarin oranges can also cause temporary yellow sweating.
White sweat
In Chinese medicine, white color belongs to the lungs, and white sweat appears when the lungs are exposed, mostly due to deficiency of heart and lung yang, often associated with weakness of the heart and lungs. Sometimes, severe pain (such as stomach pain) can also cause white sweating.
Green sweat
The sweat turns greenish, suggesting bile leakage, such as acute septic cholangitis.
Abnormal smell of sweat
The body has a medical condition
Urine odor
Sweat emits urine odor and also leaves crystalline matter on the skin after sweat dries, commonly seen in patients with uremia.
Fishy odor
Sweat with a special fishy smell, may be related to heat evidence or damp-heat evidence, generally belongs to liver heat, or mostly seen in cirrhosis, you can drink water with chrysanthemum to relieve the symptoms.
Fragrance
The sweat floats out of the fragrance, often a sign of diabetics.
So do not drink iced drinks after sweating, to properly supplement the normal temperature of plain water or light salt water, a small number of intake. Although it is better to invite people to eat than to sweat, but some sweat is a disease or even a sign of a serious illness.