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What Is The Cause Of Sweating While Eating Peanut Butter?

What could be the cause of sweating on my upper cheeks when eating peanut butter? It s salt and sugar free natural peanut butter. This has happened to me for as long as I can remember. When I was a child it would happen to me when I would eat sweets like brownies.
Tue, 25 Mar 2014
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Are you a Diabetic? If not, there is nothing to worry about. This is a normal variant called gustatory sweating. I suffer from it myself! In a diabetic patient, this is a sign that the autonomic nervous system is under stress. A similar problem occurs in patients who have undergone surgery for the parotid gland where there is an intermingling of fibres of two nerves doing two different things. This is called auriculotemporal or Frey's syndrome. From the history that you have given, this sounds like a harmless variant. Nothing to worry!
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What Is The Cause Of Sweating While Eating Peanut Butter?

Are you a Diabetic? If not, there is nothing to worry about. This is a normal variant called gustatory sweating. I suffer from it myself! In a diabetic patient, this is a sign that the autonomic nervous system is under stress. A similar problem occurs in patients who have undergone surgery for the parotid gland where there is an intermingling of fibres of two nerves doing two different things. This is called auriculotemporal or Frey s syndrome. From the history that you have given, this sounds like a harmless variant. Nothing to worry!