How to control hot flashes
Hot flashes continue to be the most common symptom of menopause. They affect around 85% of women during menopause and range from mild to severe. Hot flashes can be extremely disruptive, especially if unexpected and for this reason women often seek ways to control hot flashes. Thankfully, there are various ways that menopausal women can control hot flashes and many methods involve little effort or risk. Read on to learn about the various ways that you can control hot flashes during menopause.
What are hot flashes?
Hot flashes are a feeling of extreme heat that usually start in the neck, head, scalp and ears. Other symptoms of hot flashes include a quickened heartbeat, redness in the chest, neck and face and sometimes heavy sweating.
How can I control hot flashes?
For most women the most successful way to control hot flashes is a combination of diet, healthy lifestyle and natural remedies.
Making simple changes to your diet is the first step in learning to control hot flashes. Eating more protein, fiber, fruit, vegetables and grains and drinking more water is recommended. The following vitamins found in certain foods can help to ensure a nutritious diet:
Vitamin B: found in wheat germ or can be taken in supplements
Vitamin C: found in broccoli, cabbage, asparagus and tomatoes
Vitamin E: found in asparagus, almonds, lamb, brown rice and mangoes
Fatty acids: such as Omega 3 and Omega 6
Combining a healthy diet with regular exercise is a more effective way to control hot flashes. However, because balancing hormone levels is the most successful way to control hot flashes, it is recommended that a healthy lifestyle be combined with a hormonal imbalance treatment such as alternative medicine in order to be the most efficient way to control hot flashes.
Read on to learn about herbal remedies and how they can control hot flashes.
Using herbal remedies to control hot flashes
Herbal supplements are the most common form of alternative medicine and more women are using these to control hot flashes due to the fact that Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) can increase the risk of breast cancer and heart disease. The best type of herb to control hot flashes is a non-estrogenic herb, such as Macafem. Unlike phytoestrogenic herbs non-estrogenic herbs donīt contain any estrogen and work by stimulating a womanīs hormone production by nourishing the pituitary and endocrine glands, causing them to more efficiently produce natural hormones. This ultimately results in balancing not only estrogen but other pertinent hormones such as progesterone, and this is how non-estrogenic herbs can control hot flashes.
Learn about the triggers of hot flashes by reading below.
Avoiding triggers as a means of controlling hot flashes
Although hot flashes are primarily caused by hormonal imbalance, there are numerous triggers which, if avoided, can help to control hot flashes. These include:
• hot showers.
• hot weather.
• hot food.
• spicy food.
• alcohol.
• smoking.
• anger.
• stress.
• caffeine.
• hot drinks.
• hot rooms.
• diet pills.
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