What Causes Sweaty Hands And Hot Flashes ?

Posted on Tue, 2 Sep 2014

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Tue, 2 Sep 2014 Answered on

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Question : sweaty hands hot flashes what can this be

Answered by Dr. Charu Bansal (1 hour later)

Brief Answer:
Get the advised investigations

Detailed Answer:
Hello dear,
Welcome to HCM. I have read your query and understood your concern.

Such symptoms can be due to number of reasons like:
1) Thyroid disorder : hyperthyroidism / thyrotoxicosis
2) Diabetes mellitus
3) Pheochromocytoma
4) Carcinoid syndrome
5) Anxiety induced

I will advise you following tests:
1) Thyroid profile
2) Blood sugar levels
3) Urinary catecholamines
4 ) serum testosterone

Also get your Blood pressure check up routinely for few days.
What is your pulse rate?

Kindly Get back to me with above reports and tests so that i can help you further.
stay healthy

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar