Feverish flushed skin. Hot one minute and chilled the next. Sweating accompanied by mild nausea. Palpitations or racing heart. This list of symptoms sounds like the flu but if you are a woman over 40, you just may be experiencing hot flashes.
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Hormones May Help Younger Women with Menopause Symptoms
Today, menopausal women are young in the scale of things, says Dr. Wulf Utian, noting that menopause typically starts between age 45 and 60. If women start hormones within in a few years of menopause or even a few years before, he says there are numerous benefits beyond controlling hot flashes. These benefits include reduced risk of bone fractures, reduced risk of diabetes and for many women, an overall boost in their quality of life — meaning better sleep, maintenance of libido and more comfortable sex.
Study Says Quitting Smoking Can Reduce Hot Flashes in Menopausal Women
Health researchers have recently discerned that women of a particular age who choose to give up smoking can actually get the added benefit of experience fewer hot flashes if they succeed.
8 Things No One Ever Told You About Menopause
Menopause. Say the word and it instantly conjures images of hot flashes, zero amounts of sex, and a general feeling of why is this happening to me? But don’t lose your cool just yet—it’s not all downhill from here on out.
Up to Fourteen Years of Hot Flashes Found in Menopause Study
Conventional wisdom has it that hot flashes, which afflict up to 80 percent of middle-aged women, usually persist for just a few years. But hot flashes can continue for as long as 14 years, and the earlier they begin the longer a woman is likely to suffer, a study published on Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine found.
Women with Hot Flashes During Menopause Likelier to Fracture Hips Later
A new research has revealed the association between menopausal symptoms and bone health. The study at the University of California found that women who experience moderate to severe hot flashes and night sweats during menopause tend to have lower bone mineral density and higher rates of hip fracture than peers who do not have menopausal symptoms.
Dry Eyes Can Be Normal During Menopause
Most women think of hot flashes, moodiness, vaginal dryness and night sweats when they think of menopause; however, dry eyes are another symptom women commonly experience during this period of life.
Being Around Young Children May Reduce Menopausal Symptoms
Researchers at the Kinsey Institute and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have found that the timeless, multicultural tradition of grandmothering might have an unexpected benefit: helping some women temper their hot flashes and night sweats during menopause.
Women Have More Options for Relieving Menopausal Symptoms
More than 15 years after Viagra hit the market and former Sen. Bob Dole brought the term “erectile dysfunction” into American living rooms, hot flashes and vaginal dryness – along with the other symptoms of menopause – are starting to get their due.
Bothered by Hot Flashes? Acupuncture Might be the Answer
In the 2,500+ years that have passed since acupuncture was first used by the ancient Chinese, it has been used to treat a number of physical, mental and emotional conditions including nausea and vomiting, stroke rehabilitation, headaches, menstrual cramps, asthma, carpal tunnel, fibromyalgia and osteoarthritis, to name just a few. Now, a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials which is being published this month in Menopause, the journal of The North American Menopause Society (NAMS), indicates that acupuncture can affect the severity and frequency of hot flashes for women in natural menopause.