When you attempt to address sweating at night, it is good to always remember the different approaches your body utilizes to reduce heat and moderate your body temperature, even while you sleep.
Your goal will be to maximize your body’s natural systems for reducing its heat conduction, radiation and convection while lessening perspiration. This article will identify how to maximize radiation and convection.
Perspiring is a function of the nervous system as well as a part of your brain known as the hypothalamus. As the hypothalamus senses it must reduce your temperature quickly, it triggers your sweat glands to help cool the surface of the skin and bring your temperature down.
Our bodies radiate warmth not unlike a fireplace or electric heater. So one way our body reduces heat is with radiaiton.
To help fight night sweating, you should give your body every opportunity to emit heat without keeping that heat against or near your skin. If the air and material around your body rises to approximately the very temperature of your body or skin, the transference of heat cannot occur and so the combined heat of the area will increase.
You want to try to release some of the heat and keep it from accumulating close to you. This means using light, breathable clothing and utilizing some method for moving air where you sleep to help disperse your body heat.
Convection occurs when you transfer heat from your body by passing air over your body’s surface. This works a bit like the way you try to cool your steaming drink by blowing air on it. You also achieve this effect when you point a fan at yourself while you’re hot. The fan isn’t cooling air, it is allowing the body to get rid of the heat through convection.
In order to maximize convection, you need to get air moving all over your body while you are sleeping. A table fan directed at you may provide relief, but there are handy devices called bed fans that do the job even better by blowing a light airflow below your sheets and around your skin.
So to keep your brain from initiating the sweating, try to urge it utilize convection and radiation from the start. By helping your system simply do what it wants to do with these bodily functions, you can significantly reduce your sweating at night.