14 year old DS sweating at night

[anywinewilldo]

It's usually within the first few hours of sleep I think. He's always covered in a layer of sweat, such that if I run my hand across his back, my hand is wet. It doesn't wake him, nor does it need a change of sheets, although it makes the sheets feel damp (but dried by morning). Have googled and scared myself silly about causes of night sweats
Has anyone else similar experience or can reassure?? If it's relevant, he has not yet hit puberty (very small for his age) .

I think it might be worth going to the GP, on the grounds that its almost certainly nothing much at all, but there's a tiny chance that it's something nasty (as you've found out) and it's probably the responsible thing to check it out.

On the other hand, I have had the same problem myself, and we reckon that it seems to be a problem with heat regulation. I'm actually better in a hotter room rather than a cooler room - we kept turning the temperature down and down in the bedroom and the problem got worse, and then I had to stay four nights in a baking hot hotel room, was dreading it, and didn't have night sweats at all.

It's most likely nothing to worry about, but I'd take him to the GP to get checked out.

Probably worth a trip to the GP just to rule out anything serious. Sweating at night can sometimes be a sign of diabetes - if he has no other symptoms it may just be his age.

Good luck.

Is he too hot? DS gets sweaty sometimes - wearing PJ's and under a big cosy quilt. He now has his window open all night which has helped.