What causes hot flushes in menopause

What causes hot flushes in menopause Many women suffer from hot flashes when menopause begins. The upper body, arms and face felt hot, the skin becomes red and sweating, usually about four shoots minutes.Hot are caused by a decrease in setting the temperature of the brain. When you have an infection and the temperature rises above 100 degrees, is to slow down a little 'sweat. At the time of menopause, it is still your sweat when the temperature increases, but at temperatures below normal, like when you go from 97 to 98 degrees.Your body temperature rises and falls in a model of every day. The body temperature is generally lower at 3 am, about 96 degrees. It is higher in the early evening, about 99 degrees. During the day and night, the body temperature rises and falls with every place, a woman after the menopause, suffer from hot flushes during the month of May. Sixty-five to 85 per cent of women suffer from hot flashes that persist for a period of five years in 60 percent and more than 15 years to 10 percent.A hormone called norepinephrine causes a woman's brain that your body is the overheating, even though 't. He then retued to open the blood vessels of the skin, giving the feeling of a wave of heat and sweating starts. Clonidine, a drug blood pressure, noradrenaline, and blocks to reduce hot flashes in some women. We still have no good drugs to effectively reduce the levels of noradrenaline in the brain, but at least is a major researchers.What for the future is to take a woman for hot flashes after menopause, while larger studies show that 'intake of estrogen and progesterone increases the risk of breast cancer, heart attacks and strokes? Various reports indicate that hot flushes, it may not be able to eat a lot of whole grains and soybeans, or to take men as estrogen called tibolone, which may be prescribed for women who can not take estrogen for. However, tibolone is not available in North America, even if it is available in many other countries for the last five to ten years. Various remedies such as dong quai are announced, but not great, long-term studies have been conducted on these alteatives.Dr. Gabe Mirkin has been a guest on radio for 25 years and the medical practice for over 40 years, is board certified in four specialties, including sports medicine. Read or listen to hundreds of his fitness and health reports to the weekly newsletter on fitness, health and nutrition