When I was young my mother used to suddenly go all red in the face, and I didn’t know why. Recently my wife has started showing the same signs only her skin on her face goes blotchy and she perspires profusely
This has caused me to do some investigating and it took me a while to realise that the expression ‘hot flashes’ was exactly the same as ‘hot flushes’ and the fact that they are an indication of the onset of the menopause. I then realised that when it happened to my mother I was a young teenager, and she must have been in her mid forties. This is the very age that my wife is now, though she won’t thank me for telling you that because she looks much younger.
I now wondered if there was a cure for hot flashes, and began reading about HRT. Then I remembered there are scares over breast cancer, so any cure had to use something different. Perhaps looking at what triggers a hot flash might be a better starting point.
Stimulants such as spicy and acidic food, like chillies and curries. Hot drinks, especially caffeine, and alcoholic drinks should be avoided. Hot weather, hot baths, saunas can be a trigger. Tobacco , and pot smoking won’t help nor will intense exercise, anger or stress.
The next question to be answered is how to lessen hot flashes, or even get rid of them altogether. Gentle exercise on a regular basis makes endorphin levels rise, and with it the feel good factor, along with a decrease in hot flashes. For other improvements you should study homeopathy, and herbs.
Amongst the herbal aids there are plants that cool the system like chickweed, elder, and violet. Plants that nourish or increase oxygen utilisation in the liver which included dandelion and yellow dock. Finally plants rich in phytosterols such as black cohosh.
Homeopathy cures do work in a lot of cases, and stuff like belladonna could be the answer. The best thing you can do now is plenty of research, because a successful solution to hot flashes could save your partner or wife some years of absolute misery.
The writer has been a cynical husband on the subject of his wife’s change of lifeThe he read MenopauseSigns and he suggests you read Early Menopause Symptoms