How can I stop my mother from sweating at night?

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My mother has had night sweats for years and years she is 93 and finds it very distressing waking up in a sweat several times a night .
We have seen doctors none have helped .she is now quite weak from not sleeping and these sweats .
Any ideas would be welcome

night sweats are related to a few medical conditions, including cancer. have her checked out.

Lots of good suggestions from everyone.
Maybe need more information.
How long has this been going on, or is this a newer change in how she is?
Is it WHOLE BODY, or PART that's affected?
Can the sweats be timed to anything, like when she last ate, activities, meds, etc?
==COLD-SWEATS, Or HOT-SWEATS? ...Can you tell which hers are? Or both?
Might she be OK, but getting into a cold bed might make her feel colder?
Or, if she's feeling chilled, even only part of her, it takes too long for her to warm up once in bed...sometimes can take several hours to warm up on one's own....which might suggest she holds tension in her body, and has a hard time relaxing....which can cause one to be chilled and have hard time warming up.
If person gets slightly chilled for more than a few minutes, can have cold-sweats. They don't always get goose-bumps to indicate they feel chilled, just slightly chilled will do it, if left too long without warming. Then once in bed, with more heater, more layers of blankets etc., they get too hot--and have a hot-sweat.
Suggest: try adding a warming layer around back of neck, and around wrists, ankles, where body heat is lost fastest; this, when she's up and around and asking you for more heat, to keep ahead of her feeling the need to ask.
Some like a sleep-cap, to keep their head warm, too.
==INFECTION? Some infections specifically have night sweats [like pneumonia]. Could even be a UTI.
==IMMUNE SYSTEM ISSUES? Often also have temperature dysregulation--their body no longer regulates it's temperature adequately, so no matter where the thermostat is set, or heating blanket, there's always some sense that they need more or less heat, that sense can change in an instant.
==LOW THYROID? ...standard TSH may not find it, AND...the usually dosed synthetic T4 might not be converted to the usable T3, meaning that they can take all the synthetic T4 they want, it doesn't help, if they cannot convert it to the form the body needs to use.
Old-time Doc hints: IF the body core temp, taken 10 days in a row before the person gets out of bed, still sits below 98 degrees F., that indicates likely low thyroid...the lower that consistently is, the more likely, as long as the temps are being taken properly [in this case, under the armpit for 5 minutes].
==MED CHANGES, or NEEDED CHANGES: some meds can trigger body temp dysregulation. Too much, not enough, too fast taking someone off one of those, etc.
==METABOLIC ISSUES? Eating a balanced snack, something with good fats and good protein, might help keep the blood sugar more stable through the night.
Fats [especially] and proteins, take longer to digest, so help keep the metabolism more stable than carbs. Following a Ketogenic or Paleo type diet, has helped many ills get better. Please seek medical advice to do this properly..it's harder than most realize.
==CIRCULATORY ISSUES? Raynaud's phenomena can cause cold hands and feet, as well as discoloration.

If using something [low-tech] snuggly over back of neck, wrists, ankles and toes is not working, have you tried: heated blanket or heated mattress pad to pre-warm the bed, then shut those off once she's tucked-in?
For greater safety if there is wet happening, some have used a space blanket under the mattress pad, to reflect body heat back to the body, or placed one of those inside a duvet cover...they kind of crinkle-sound, but not badly, and help keep the body warm without using electricity.
Rice or bean-filled neck pillows can be warmed in the microwave to help around the back of the neck.
Some folks do well with a hot bath before bed, others feel it chills them worse.
Some do well drinking a small cup of hot beverage in the evening.
Does she like a bed jacket with a collar covering back of her neck? What if it were warmed up over a safe heating device, before putting it on her just before she gets into bed?

CAUTIONS: Those hot-strips one can get online or from pharmacy to warm sore body parts: can get too hot for elderly frail skin.
Heating pads often fail to hold a proper temperature, and can have hot-spots that can burn a person; frail persons may fail to sense that the device has over-heated, and can get blisters.

Divide house into heating/cooling zones: Can really help, some like their areas warmer, some like theirs cooler.
Some folks simply refuse to wear more layers, and insist on the whole room being at the temp they like. Different ways to help them regulate their body temp using clothing layers, instead of the whole room, is better.
Or, use a $40-$50 oil-filled radiator in their room or near them. We've used these for years to boost a room's heat, instead of turning up a central heating for the whole house or apartment. Set it only on 600 watts [the lowest toggle], then adjust it's rheostat. Can move to other room when need.

My 94 yr old Mom had this problem too and has had for several years, however in the past she was able to get up and change in the middle of the night. Now she rings her bell. SO I bought her a mattress warmer and Polar Fleece sheets. My sister got her a wool army blanket. So we turn on the mattress warmer before bed and she climbs into a WARM snuggly bed. We shut off the mattress warmer when she gets into bed and cover her up with the polar sheets and place the wool army blanket over her legs and feet with her comforter/spread over top. She now sleeps very comfortable and no longer has night sweats from dressing too warm and soaking everything from sweat. We also close off her AC Vent and place a plastic flow device over it preventing any air from blowing her way so we can enjoy the AC in our California home.

It is common knowledge that it is best to go to sleep in a cool room. It is no wonder that she is waking up drenched in sweat. All of the ads in mags/tv tell us that it is best to sleep cool.

I am 75 and am also cold and continually sweat. I was someone who never sweated for most of my life, I had no idea how it felt for other people. Specialists have been unable to help and so now I only take prescribed medication and am adding one extra thing such as calcium, etc. every week to try and find the culprit myself. You could see if that would help for your mother.

Cold and sweat are opposite reactions. If you're cold, how in the world do you sweat?

Do not want to be the "negative" one here, but we once worked with a wonderful and beautiful young women who got pregnant in her late 30's. She was about 5 months when she also started to complain that she is cold in the summer. They have tried hot baths, hot water bottles, etc. Eventually she went to ER and died. Afterwards they discovered that the baby had died and her body did not rejected / aborted the dead fetus. She was infected by the dead fetus. Maybe have your mom tested if there is not some sort of internal infection.

Justashes: Oh, my goodness! What an alarming story! It's a wonder that routine checkups with her OB doc would not have discovered that! Just shocking! Wow! Yes, to the OP- definitely check out your elder.