Everyone Healthy Library
Sweating (Perspiring)
Sign or symptom reference page from the Everyone Healthy database.
! Seek urgent medical care if warning signs appear
A symptom can have many possible causes. Some symptoms need urgent assessment, especially when they are severe, sudden or rapidly worsening.
Get urgent medical care now if there is any severe, sudden, rapidly worsening or worrying symptom, especially:
- chest pain, pressure or pain spreading to the arm, jaw or back
- trouble breathing, blue lips, severe wheeze or choking
- stroke-like symptoms such as face drooping, arm weakness or speech trouble
- collapse, fainting, seizure, confusion or extreme drowsiness
- severe bleeding, black stools, vomiting blood or major injury
- severe allergic reaction, swelling of the face/throat or widespread rash with breathing trouble
- severe abdominal pain, severe headache, stiff neck or sudden vision change
- signs of severe dehydration, sepsis, high fever with worsening illness, or symptoms in a baby/young child that concern you
Full information
Sweating (Perspiring)
Excreting sweat (perspiration) through the pores of the skin.
Symptom classification
Body areaEntire Body
Body areaSkin
Conditions linked to this sign/symptom
75- Acetaminophen Poisoning
- Acromegaly
- Acute Coronary Syndromes
- Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure
- Acute Infectious Arthritis
- AIDS
- Alcohol Withdrawal
- Amebiasis
- Angina Pectoris
- Anthrax
- Anxiety Disorder
- Asthma
- Autonomic Neuropathy
- Bacteremia
- Black Widow Spider Bite
- Blastomycosis
- Brucellosis
- Cardiac Tamponade
- Chorioamnionitis
- Cnidaria
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
- Cushings Syndrome
- Dyspepsia
- Essential Thrombocythemia
- Giant Cell Arteritis
- Graves Disease
- Hallucinogen Abuse
- Hallucinogen Intoxication
- Heat Cramps
- Heat Exhaustion
- Heatstroke
- Histoplasmosis
- Hyperhidrosis
- Hypochondriasis
- Influenza
- Insulinoma
- Isaacs Syndrome
- Ischaemic Heart Disease
- Liver Metastases
- Lung Abscess
- Lung Failure
- Menieres Disease
- Menopause
- Monkeypox
- Motion Sickness
- Myocardial Infarction
- Opioid Withdrawal
- Osteomyelitis
- Panic Attacks
- Panic Disorder
- Patent Ductus Arteriosus
- Pheochromocytoma
- Pneumococcal Pneumonia
- Pneumonia
- Pneumonia in The Immunocompromised Host
- POEMS Syndrome
- Polycythemia Vera
- Pulmonary Edema
- Pulmonary Embolism
- Pulmonary Renal Syndrome
- Rickettsialpox
- Septicaemia
- Silent Lymphocytic Thyroiditis
- Social Phobia
- Specific Phobia
- Streptococcal Pneumonia
- Subacute Thyroiditis
- Tetanus
- Tuberculosis
- Tularemia
- Typhoid Fever
- Variant Angina
- Ventilatory Failure
- Ventricular Septal Defect
- Wolff Parkinson White Syndrome
Drugs where this is listed as a side effect
36- Candesartan
- Citalopram
- Clomipramine
- Dothiepin
- Doxepin
- Escitalopram
- Flecainide
- Fluvoxamine
- Foscarnet
- Ganciclovir
- Goserelin
- Ketorolac
- Mianserin
- Minoxidil
- Mirtazepine
- Nevirapine
- Pantoprazole
- Paroxetine
- Phenylephrine
- Prazosin
- Ritonavir
- Salcatonin
- Sertraline
- Sibutramine
- Sodium nitroprusside
- Sodium Valproate
- Stavudine
- Tamsulosin
- Terazosin
- Tramadol
- Tranylcypromine
- Tretinoin
- Trimipramine
- Vasopressin
- Venlafaxine
- Zolmitriptan