Night sweats Assessment Questionnaire

Why: to determine if acute or chronic.

Why: e.g. while moderate night sweats are common in anxiety states, drenching night sweats requiring several changes of night clothes is a more ominous symptom associated with infection or lymphoproliferative disease such as lymphoma.

Why: e.g. intermittent fever of malaria; undulant fever where bouts of fever for several days are followed by several days of normal temperature occur with lymphomas.

Why: overseas travelers or visitors may have special or even exotic infections.

Why: e.g. AIDS; Rheumatic fever; immunodeficiency, cancer; acquired heart valvular disease such as mitral regurgitation, mitral stenosis, aortic stenosis and aortic regurgitation are at increased risk of infective endocarditis; congenital heart disease such as patent ductus arteriosus, ventricular septal defect and coarctation of the aorta are at increased risk of infective endocarditis.

Why: e.g. prosthetic heart valve replacements are at increased risk of infective endocarditis.

Why: may help to determine risk of HIV. Night sweats in people with HIV infection may be the earliest sign of major infection or malignancy or can be a direct result of HIV infection.

Why: e.g. intravenous drug users are at increased risk of right heart infective endocarditis.

Why: e.g. nervousness, shakiness, tremor, restlessness, irritability, insomnia, poor concentration, heart palpitations, racing heart, sweating (including moderate night sweats), dizziness, diarrhea, lump in throat and frequency of urination.

Why: e.g. tiredness, weight loss, night sweats (often soaking the sheets), diarrhea, susceptibility to opportunistic infections and tumors. May have the presence of multiple infections at one time.

Why: e.g. painless neck lymph node enlargement, fever, night sweats, weight loss, itch, fatigue, loss of appetite, alcohol induced pain at the site of the enlarged lymph nodes.

Why: e.g. fever, night sweats, weight loss, weakness, symptoms of cardiac failure such as shortness of breath on exertion, orthopnea (breathlessness lying down flat), paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea (inappropriate severe breathlessness causing waking from sleep), painful muscles and major joints.

Why: e.g. tiredness, malaise, loss of appetite, loss of weight, fever, cough. May have drenching night sweats. Sputum may be mucous-like, pus-like or blood stained.