Hot flushes at night in men – What can be the causes?
Unfortunately, nightly hot flushes in men often indicate a serious underlying disease, if external factors can be excluded. Exactly which ones are involved, cannot be said exactly. From an infectious illness as for example the tuberculosis or a rheumatoid arthritis everything is conceivable. Here it requires always a clarification in individual cases. However, it is not uncommon for them to be an indication of a malignant tumor disease, which often occurs with further symptoms such as fever and weight loss (so-called B-symptoms).
Hot flushes at night in a young woman – What could be the causes?
When young women suffer from hot flashes at night, several causes are possible. Often the female cycle shortly after ovulation causes an increase in body temperature due to a shift in female hormone concentrations. Affected women with a good body image then experience this as a hot flush at night and often during the day. If other symptoms such as fever occur, it can also be an inflammatory disease. If there is additional weight loss, a tumor disease must be ruled out.
Hot flashes before the period
A feeling of heat at night is nothing unusual before your monthly period. This is due to the fact that the period is a so-called “withdrawal bleeding” due to hormonal changes. If the egg is not fertilized after ovulation, the “pregnancy hormones” to maintain the highly built up mucous membrane in the uterus are missing and the mucous membrane bleeds off.It is precisely the hormonal transition associated with this that causes the body temperature to rise. Especially young women who have their first menstrual periods suffer from sensations of heat because the cycle has not yet been properly set and the hormonal fluctuations are usually even more pronounced.
The hot flashes during pregnancy
During pregnancy nightly hot flushes are rather untypical. However, they can be explained by the fact that the pregnancy hormone “progesterone” causes an increase in body temperature. To be honest, however, it is only a slight increase in body temperature of about 0.2 degrees Celsius, which pregnant women usually do not even notice consciously. Another explanation is the increased metabolism during pregnancy, which is also slightly increased at night compared to non-pregnant women.
