Menopause Night Sweats & Hot Flashes

Hot Flashes May Prompt Closer Look at Bone Health

“The concept of assessing bone health via the amount or intensity of hot flashes is interesting and may provide another method for screening for osteoporosis,” suggests Dr. Levy, who is also CEO of Unigene Laboratories Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on peptide-based nasally and orally delivered osteoporosis treatments. “However, the gold standard today is a bone scan which is widely available and inexpensive for most patients. The study does help raise awareness about the importance of being vigilant about bone loss during this part of one’s life, and encourages regular bone scans, if possible, because even early perimenopausal women can experience significant bone loss.”

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Soy offers natural help for Hot Flashes

–Maintain a healthy weight. Women who are overweight or obese have a higher risk of hot flashes. Regular vigorous exercise will help to maintain weight and may also reduce hot flashes.

–Try topical natural progesterone cream. Adding a little progesterone may help to reduce hot flashes and may also help women sleep better. Topical natural progesterone is available over the counter; look for a product that contains about 20 milligrams of progesterone per dose. It should be applied before bedtime to an area of the skin that won’t be exposed to sunlight.

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Hormone therapy for Hot Flashes

Hormone therapy is the use of certain drugs — estrogen alone or in combination with a progesterone or an androgen (a form of testosterone) — to treat hot flashes and other physical changes women experience in menopause.

It used to be called hormone replacement therapy, but the word replacement was recently dropped because the treatment never literally increased hormones to premenopausal levels. It simply treats the symptoms of menopause, says Dr. Tami Shandro, a physician with the provincial menopause clinics at the Grey Nuns Community Hospital and Royal Alexandra Hospital.

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hot flashes and night sweats Doctors Divided

Millions of women did, including those whose primary motivation was to relieve the distressing symptoms — from hot flashes and night sweats to reduced libido — that afflict 80 percent of women entering menopause. Within a year, U.S. prescriptions for Prempro, the combination drug tested in the WHI trial, had plummeted and researchers in Australia, Britain and New Zealand had canceled a major hormone therapy trial that was about to begin.

On July 9, 2002, investigators in charge of the Women’s Health
Initiative, the largest, most ambitious examination of menopausal
women, abruptly stopped one part of the study three years ahead of
schedule. They took this unusual step after finding that a routinely
prescribed combination of two hormones, estrogen and progestin, was
making many women more susceptible to heart attack, stroke, breast
cancer and blood clots.

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Menopause and Andropause Hormone Therapy Seminar

BodyLogicMD provides targeted and comprehensive seminars focused on natural bioidentical hormone therapy and customized fitness and nutrition programs. Highly trained physicians share their expertise and show how individualized programs are designed to meet the unique needs of each patient. Guests enjoy the opportunity to speak directly with the physician presenter(s) in a question and answer format following each seminar.

BodyLogicMD’s Dr. Alicia Stanton will discuss the many of the symptoms of menopause and andropause including low testosterone, estrogen dominance, adrenal fatigue and diminished sex drive and how bioidentical hormone therapy integrated with fitness and nutrition can help.

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Sweating is an important bodily function

Acute excessive night sweats can also herald the onset of some type of infectious disease, such as the flu. Night sweats are associated with tuberculosis.

Excessive night sweating is also a symptom of hyperthyroidism, certain immunological diseases, cancers and rheumatoid arthritis.

Medications may also cause night sweats

yes Sweating is essential to keep the body cool But you don’t have to do it at night. One word.. Bedfan

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Mattress Ticking to soak up night sweats

Changes in body temperature can lead to perspiration or night-sweats of up to an average of 0,5 litres per night. Night-sweats are often associated with bedding products made with non-optimal feeling insulation. Thanks to ADVANSA’s constant quest to discover new comfort solutions and to respond to consumers’ demands, Suprelle FRESH with TENCEL results from ADVANSA’s extensive experience in developing and manufacturing technical fibers for high-end products, specifically designed to deal with
moisture management.

My opinion is i would rather not have Night Sweats.. Where will all the sweat go ? Get a BEDFAN to stop Night Sweats

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Hot Flashes, Night sweats, what is Safe for me

Err on the side of caution. Opt for a safer alternative to get relief from hot flashes and night sweats, such as bioidentical hormones, or visit your local health food store and look for a Health Canadaapproved natural health product for menopause symptoms. If the product has a natural product number (NPN) on its label, then you know it’s been

Women everywhere are talking about menopause and hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Is it safe or isn’t it?

Well that depends on who you ask, what studies you read and what media reports you’re exposed to….

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More Pj’s for night sweats

CoolJamaz promise to cool you down while you sleep by absorbing the sweat from your skin. It’s marketed toward women suffering with night sweats related to menopause, but is for anyone dealing with the hot flashes at night.

Again, you are still sweating …… I don’t like to sweat.. i like the BEDFAN No Sweats

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Pajamas for night sweats

Hot flashes that hit at any time, and of course drenching night sweats that can force you up and out of your sleep. Once you’re in that club, you know exactly how it feels.

Some women opt for hormone replacement, other try natural remedies. Plus, there was a time when the topic was simply off limits!

But, what works for one woman, may not for another.

PJs, or Stop night sweats totally with the BEDFAN .. my choice.

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