Guide To The Symptoms Of Endocarditis

Night Sweats

An individual who experiences night sweats may be affected by endocarditis. The medical definition of night sweats is a drenching sweat that prompts the affected individual to change their pajamas and sheets several times per week. Night sweats occur as an adverse effect of numerous different types of infections, including endocarditis. An affected individual's immune system responds to the infection-causing pathogen in several ways. One way is to prompt the brain to adjust the body's internal thermostat to a higher baseline temperature. This mechanism is meant to make the environment inhospitable for the pathogen causing endocarditis or any other infection. However, the body makes sure the high temperature does not become too high due to the serious consequences and damage an extremely high fever causes. When a patient with an infection has a fever that is becoming too high, the body initiates its cooling mechanism called sweating. This process involves the release of salt and water from the skin through the sweat glands. As the water dampens the skin, it is evaporated into the air. Heat accompanies the water evaporated from the skin, lowering the body's core temperature. These temperature fluctuations may occur several times during the night from endocarditis.

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