Sweating Disorder after Traumatic Brain Injury

Sweating Disorders after Traumatic Brain injury are common with multifactorial causes including injuries, tumours, infarcts or haemorrhages of the brain or medulla. Irritation of the central or peripheral nervous system may lead to an unexplainable spectrum of sweating ranging from anhidrosis to hyperhidrosis. Stroke in the region of the cerebral hemispheres, hypothalamus, pons & spinal cord has been known to cause hyperhidrosis. Unilateral hyperhidrosis may also be caused by disruption of pathways from Frontal Coeruleus Nucleus [1-2].