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Uggh.....It's talked about with dread and looked forward to with even more dread. What can be worst?
You may experience night sweats, vaginal dryness and hot flashes which occur in many, but not all, women undergoing menopause.
The hot flashes vary in severity, from a sudden sensation of warmth to acute drenching sweats and bright red flushing. Duration ranges from a few months, to a few years or not at all.
Menstruation becomes irregular and finally stops. Menopause, also referred to as the "change of life," is the point at which a woman stops ovulating and menstruation ceases, indicating the end of fertility.
They say that it's supposed to be regarded as a natural process in a woman's life. But when it becomes disabling and actually interferes with your normal course of daily activities, that's a different story.
Menopause Problems
Most women experience menopause in their forties or fifties. Like
puberty and pregnancy, menopause is packed with physical and
psychological changes caused by shifts in a woman's hormonal makeup.
When a woman stops ovulating, her ovaries largely stop producing the hormones estrogen and progesterone.
All of the menopause symptoms are due to estrogen and progesterone deficiency.
For some women, this process takes as little as six months, others have the menopause symptoms for three years or longer.
Unnatural Hormone
Replacement Thererapy
Many of these are working women who are looking for safe ways to reduce the menopause symptoms.Replacement Thererapy
The menopause symptoms does not indicate that menopause is a disease. Nevertheless, you should watch out for your health before, during and after menopause.
Women are being bombarded with a host of conflicting messages about hormone replacement therapy (HRT)and menopause and it can be very confusing. Many are concerned that hormone therapy may cause cancer and other diseases.
For years (HRT) hormone replacement therapy was offered as an effective treatment for such symptoms as hot flashes and night sweats.
Use of hormones plummeted after 2002, when a major study found hormone therapy increases users' risks of heart attack, stroke and breast cancer.
However, with a proper diet, nutritional supplements, and exercise, most of the unpleasant side effects of the menopause symptoms can be minimized, if not eliminated. See my pages on women's health care for the 20s, health care for the 30s, health care for the 40s and beyond.
Healthy Diet A Must
The following alternative health care tips help a great deal toward providing support for the menopause symptoms. Eat a diet consisting of 50 percent raw foods and take a protein supplement to help stabilize blood sugar. Add blackstrap molasses, broccoli, dandelion greens, kelp, salmon with bones, sardines and white fish to your diet.
Severely limit intake of red meat, fried foods. A high-fat diet produces high estrogen levels, and when you go through menopause, there's a big drop in these hormone levels, setting off a tremendous number of hot flashes.
Avoid dairy products-limit consumption to small amounts of low-fat yogurt or buttermilk. Dairy products and meat promote hot flashes.They also contribute to a loss of calcium from the bones.
Avoid alcohol, caffeine, sugar, spicy foods, and hot soups and drinks, they can trigger hot flashes, aggravate urinary incontinence, and make mood swings worse.
They also make the blood more acidic, which prompts the bones to release calcium to act as a buffering agent. This is an important factor in bone loss.
Substitute garlic or onion powder for salt when cooking. Consuming salt increases urinary excretion of calcium.
Drink 2 quarts of quality water each day to help prevent drying of the skin and mucous membranes.
For itching in the vaginal area, use vitamin E cream(with no fragrance added) or open a vitamin E capsule and apply the oil.
Alternative Health Care
Start as early in your younger years as you can. Or if you're already into it, it's not too late. Get serious and you will begin to feel and see some changes.Reduce stress in your life. Get regular moderate exercise. Exercise is one method of stress reduction that reduces hot flashes.
Prayer, meditation, yoga and tai chi can all be used to control your body's stress response and reduce menopausal symptoms.
Herbs, homeopathy, acupuncture, and other self-help measures support and work with a woman's body, not against it, thereby reducing the dread of the menopause symptoms!
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