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What Causes Excessive Sweating?

Hi my name is Bertha Flore and I have a family member that she is 60+ years and suffer from excessive sweeting, the doctors have done lab work but her sugar levels are normal, and all the other blood test have come back normal, is there any other test that they might be overlooking,, the only symptom that she has is that she sweets a lot, at night like every 2 hours she needs to change her cloth that is how much she sweets. please help me. Thank you for your help.
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Sweating so much at night is considered "B"symptoms of many malignancies like lymphoma. Infections like TB also have similar symptoms. So she needs to be checked thoroughly before concluding that her sweating is normal.
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What Causes Excessive Sweating?

Sweating so much at night is considered B symptoms of many malignancies like lymphoma. Infections like TB also have similar symptoms. So she needs to be checked thoroughly before concluding that her sweating is normal.