When your body is overheated, when you're moving around, when you're feeling emotional, or as a result of hormones, nerves activate the sweat glands. When those nerves overreact, it causes hyperhidrosis. For instance, someone may only need to think of a situation that causes anxiety in order to break out in a sweat.
What profuse sweating means?
Definition. By Mayo Clinic Staff. Excessive sweating is when you sweat more than you might expect based on the surrounding temperature or your activity level or stress. Excessive sweating can disrupt daily activities and cause social anxiety or embarrassment.
What illness can cause excessive sweating?
Health conditions that might cause excessive sweating include:
- Acromegaly.
- Diabetic hypoglycemia.
- Fever of undetermined cause.
- Hyperthyroidism (overactive thyroid)
- Infection.
- Leukemia.
- Lymphoma.
- Malaria.
