Periodical excessive sweating in head area, is it an allergy or a psychosomatic disease?

Hello, I am 22 years old, female. I am not a native speaker, so sorry for any mistakes.

My question is that I sometimes have a peculiar reaction to a number of triggers. I'll first describe the reaction, and then the triggers, because it's a whole list.

The reaction symptoms:

• Excessive sweating on face, scalp, sometimes neck
• Face turns red and hot
• The rest of my body can feel cold, while my head feels like it's on fire, like all the warmth is concentrated on the head
• I get very thirsty, drink a lot of water but it doesn't help
• And since I drink a lot of water, I run to toilet every 30 minutes
• I have an uncomfortable feeling inside my mouth, like it's very hot in there, and there's a lot of thick saliva
• My eyes get kind of warm (?), and because of that they feel heavier and hence I get sleepy

The reaction can last from 20 minutes to an entire day.

Now to the triggers. Quick note that sometimes this reaction happens even without any trigger, just randomly, usually during the day - it rarely happens at night:

• after I eat something and don't drink a lof of water afterwards
• sometimes after I eat something, just anything. it may happen, it may not happen, i didn't notice any pattern. i also didn't notice any pattern in the food itself, so there's no one or few particular ingredients that are causing this. It's just sometimes some ingredients cause it more often, but not always. Those ingredients are: chocolate, nuts, coffee, tomato, spicy food, garlic, soy sauce, kiwi, pineapple, pizza
• it often happens if I am looking at food pictures or reading a menu, or if I am just thinking of food
• sometimes just when it is hot, but oftentimes a cold room is not enough to not let that reaction happen
• if i am going to take a nap during the day, i often find this reaction happening either before the nap, or after I wake up
• If I am sick
• If I have anything uncomfortable happening inside my mouth, like toothache, stomatitis, sore throat or scratched gum, and I get scratches surprisingly easily

More often than not it happens without any of those triggers, for no obvious (to me) reason. Especially after midday.

This reaction is so freaking uncomfortable and distracting, that I usually cannot concentrate on anything else during the day. It is hard to get rid of, sometimes it is enough to take an ice cold shower and distract myself with something else, but more often the reaction is there for really long, until the very night.

I've been having these reactions from at least high school, for around 7 years now. Maybe I had them earlier but never really noticed. They became more intense and frequent lately.

I had few suspicions on what could be the possible reasons for such reactions. My first guess was that it might by diabetes, and I have consulted a doctor on that matter, and they said that the likelihood of me having diabetes is very low, although I'm thinking of visiting another specialist and check on that possibility again.

My next guess was that it might be an eating disorder, since most of the triggers have something to do with food. But I never really had an eating disorder, at least not that I know of.

Out of the diseases that I have, I have chronic tonsillitis and gastritis. Hyperhidrosis. Recent analyses have shown that I have a lot of Candida in stool, if that affects anything I mentioned.

I am just confused as to what it could be. Is it an allergy or psychosomatic? What kind of specialist should I consult in order to find a treatment?

Thank you very much in advance.

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