When people come in contact with poison ivy, the urushiol can cause an allergic skin reaction that produces reddish, itchy, and painful inflammation of the skin (dermatitis). Close relatives of poison ivy plants that produce similar dermatitis symptoms are poison oak and poison sumac.
Health conditions that may cause excessive sweating include: 1  Diabetes. 2  Endocarditis. 3  Fever of undetermined cause.  Generalized anxiety 1  disorder. Hiatal hernia.  Heat 1  exhaustion. HIV/ 2 AIDS. Hyperhidrosis.  Hyperthyroidism (overactive 1  thyroid) 2  Leukemia.  Malaria.
Getting Mad Can Cause Sweating When you get angry, your body reaches its boiling point, releasing stress hormones that increase your heart rate and blood pressure and raise your body temperature, which can lead to sweating.