I have mono and am on antibiotics. Whenever I go to bed, every 2 hours I wake up in a serious sweat . Why?

Answer 1

When you have a disease that causes a fever, your body gets confused about how to regulate your temperature. If it thinks your temperature is too low, it will cause chills, and the shivering acts to raise your body temperature. When your body thinks it is too hot, it sweats. The evaporating sweat will cool your body.

If you are taking a drug like aspirin or Tylenol or ibuprofen, it will lower your temperature if you have a fever. It causes your body to decide it is too hot, and so you will sweat.

Antibiotics will not work against mononucleosis, which is caused by a virus. Your doctor may have given you the antibiotics for a secondary infection.

The whole body temperature regulation system is very complex, especially in illness, but I hope this helps.

Answer 2

I thought Mono or Glandular Fever was caused by a Virus in which case you do not get antibiotics, because they are for bacterial infections? Are you sure you have Mono?