Coping with Hot Flushes Symptoms

One of the most common menopause symptoms is hot flushes. It happens to at most 70-75% of women who are experiencing their menopause. Hot flushes usually happen during the perimenapause or about two years before menstruation ceases. The symptom happens for more than one year to most 80% of menopausal women and some 50% of them even experience hot flushes for 5 years. In order to be able to cope with hot flushes, you need to know about this symptom and acquire the best way to treat it. Here are some tips that you can use to help yourself when you are experiencing hot flushes syndrome.

Hot flushes vary in intensity. Some women only experience a few second of warm feeling around the face and some other experience a dramatic rise in temperature throughout the body along with the feeling of dizziness, nausea, and faint. Some women feel embarrassed about having hot flushes because they think it might be the signal of their menopause to others. But it is more likely to go completely unnoticed because hot flushes only show slightly changes to the color of the face during a flush.

The cause of hot flush which is associated with the menopause is the changing level of estrogen in the body. This has effect on the hypothalamus which is a part of the brain which controls appetite, sleep cycles, sex hormones, and body temperature. If the estrogen drops, the hypothalamus is confused and makes it think your body is too hot. The brain responds by sending out alert which initiates some changes, including triggering the body to radiate heat.

To treat hot flushes, best thing that you can do is to identify the things that trigger a hot flush. Try to record your hot flush occurrences and what you were eating or doing at the time. Some of the common case that triggers hot flushes is stress. As you have reviewed your condition, try as best as you could to avoid the cases that makes you have a hot flush. You can also do simple deep breathing in order to avoid hot flushes. A scientist who is known for his expertise in menopause suggest that women who are experiencing menopause should take a yoga class to maintain their deep breathing in order to avoid hot flushing. They can also try deep abdominal breathe for at least 15 minutes in the morning, 15 minutes in the evening, and 15 minutes on the onset of the hot flushes.