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Article: Couple comes up with a cool counter to hot flashes.(The Dallas Morning News)
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- October 13, 2000
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By her own account, Sharon "Missy" Peay was a 51-year-old woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown three years ago.
After suffering through endless nights interrupted by hot flashes, the California nursing assistant opened her freezer one night, grabbed a box of frozen peas and applied it to the back of her neck.
After a few minutes, she felt better, she says. The sweating subsided, the panic was gone, and she went back to bed. "It only took about five minutes," Peay recalls. "There was no more perspiration. No more clamminess. No more nothing."
But she hopes it will be more than a middle-of-the-night remedy.
Sharon Peay and her ...