Hot Flashes Are No Joke When They Leave You Soaked In Sweat And Feeling Dazed
THE PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF MENOPAUSE
BY
MICHELLE THOMAS
The topic, hot flashes, is a colloquial term used to refer to women, generally middle-aged, who experience their menstrual cycles ending. As a result, the hormones, primarily that hypothalamus (the body’s internal thermometer), starts to produce an extreme heating sensation. What does this occur to female chemotherapy patients?
The concoction administered to some breast cancer patients is referred to as TCH. This is a combination of textotere, carboplatin and Herceptin. Texotere is a drug that , start to produce Hot flashes are no joke when they leave you soaked in sweat and feeling dazed. Technically, hot flashes exaggerate how the body normally cools down: blood vessels dilate, letting more blood reach the skin to release heat. They tend to come on rapidly and last from one to five minutes. They range in severity from a fleeting sense of warmth to a feeling of being on fire. Some women have just a few during a week; others get them day and night. I, on the other hand, have them several times in a day. My menopausal occurrences started after receiving chemotherapy, thus thrusting me into early menopause! For American women, vasomotor symptoms are common around menopause, but the experience isn 't universal: fewer Japanese, Korean and Southeast Asian women report having hot flashes. Scientists say such differences may reflect cultural variations in lifestyle, semantics and attitudes. Genetics could be involved. Smoking and obesity increase the likelihood of hot flashes, for unknown reasons. Researchers have studied the physiology of hot flashes for more than 30 years but still don 't know exactly how or why they occur. Scientist Robert R. Freedman and his colleagues at Detroit 's Wayne State University School of Medicine have measured skin temperature, blood flow, heart rate and sweating in menopausal women before, during and after hot flashes. They 've found that women who experience hot
BY
MICHELLE THOMAS
The topic, hot flashes, is a colloquial term used to refer to women, generally middle-aged, who experience their menstrual cycles ending. As a result, the hormones, primarily that hypothalamus (the body’s internal thermometer), starts to produce an extreme heating sensation. What does this occur to female chemotherapy patients?
The concoction administered to some breast cancer patients is referred to as TCH. This is a combination of textotere, carboplatin and Herceptin. Texotere is a drug that , start to produce Hot flashes are no joke when they leave you soaked in sweat and feeling dazed. Technically, hot flashes exaggerate how the body normally cools down: blood vessels dilate, letting more blood reach the skin to release heat. They tend to come on rapidly and last from one to five minutes. They range in severity from a fleeting sense of warmth to a feeling of being on fire. Some women have just a few during a week; others get them day and night. I, on the other hand, have them several times in a day. My menopausal occurrences started after receiving chemotherapy, thus thrusting me into early menopause! For American women, vasomotor symptoms are common around menopause, but the experience isn 't universal: fewer Japanese, Korean and Southeast Asian women report having hot flashes. Scientists say such differences may reflect cultural variations in lifestyle, semantics and attitudes. Genetics could be involved. Smoking and obesity increase the likelihood of hot flashes, for unknown reasons. Researchers have studied the physiology of hot flashes for more than 30 years but still don 't know exactly how or why they occur. Scientist Robert R. Freedman and his colleagues at Detroit 's Wayne State University School of Medicine have measured skin temperature, blood flow, heart rate and sweating in menopausal women before, during and after hot flashes. They 've found that women who experience hot
References: The Anatomy of a Hot Flash - http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsweek/Hot_flashes.htm How Hot Flashes Happen - http://www.everydayhealth.com/menopause/science-behind-the-hot-flash.aspx