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Article: Options to help cool hot flashes: vitamin E, yoga, hormone therapy
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 3, 2005
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You're having dinner with your family when it starts. First, it
feels as if your brain is being seared, heating up so much you wonder
if steam will escape from your ears. You hope it will pass and that
no one will notice, but slowly the skin on your neck and face becomes
flushed and beads of sweat run down your temples and the back of your
bra.
You are experiencing that very natural, but dreaded nonetheless,
beginning symptom of menopause: the hot flash.
Hot flashes are a sign to women in their 40s and beyond that
things are changing, both in their bodies and in their lives. A woman
usually experiences hot flashes in the year or two leading up to
menopause and anywhere from six months to ...