All Entries in the "Menopause" Category

Yoga For Menopause

Yoga is ideal for woman of all ages and stages. It is particularly beneficial for menopausal women as it lowers the effects of hormonal fluctuations during menopause by bringing about a balance in the endocrine system and minimizing the brunt of bothersome symptoms. The following 5 yoga poses are highly recommended for menopausal women for improving sleep, increasing energy levels, lowering blood pressure and balancing hormones. These poses could be done separately or together sequentially. Supta Baddha Konasana Pose Also known as the Goddess Pose, it helps in mending issues and re-connecting one to the deity underneath the fiend which menopause tends to make us feel sometimes. This pose facilitates deep nourishment as blood flow is steered towards the pelvic region thus freeing the reproductive  [...]

How to Stay Cool during Menopause Hot Flashes

Turn off the heat with these prudent and sneak tips which would help in chilling out the next menopause hot flashes episode. Speedy Cool down For getting respite from menopause hot flashes, one could try tucking into Cleavage Cooler Gels (costing around 33 dollars for a pair) that function by relieving body heat and come with a thermal casing for maintaining their cool. Temperature Regulation Micro-weight tanks (SmartWool) costing around forty-five dollars are ideal innerwear irrespective of whether one is donning powersuits, at work or out walking. These all-wool tanks obtainable in blacks, whites and pastel tones help bring about temperature regulation. Laughing away your menopausal hot flashes Add a hilarious twist to bothersome menopause hot flashes by investing in 25  [...]

Placating Exercises for allaying Signs of Menopause

The following yoga moves would be helpful in relaxing the body and might even help in evading hot flashes which is one of the most niggling signs of menopause. Menstrual changes, sex problems like dryness in vagina and altered libido are other signs of menopause. Bridge Move Lying down flat on the mat, bending knees, feet flattened and placement at a distance hip width away and near the buttocks. Arms to be placed by the sides, relaxing and focussing on inhalation and exhalation. While allowing the body to descend into the carpet, feeling the back lengthening and releasing. Firming the buttock and drawing the coccyx (tailbone) towards the heel area for shielding the lower back. The feet are to be pressed on to the carpet and gradually raising the spine upwards as one inhales  [...]

Pros and Cons of Hormone Replacement Therapy for Menopausal Night Sweats

Over seventy percent of females ail from the upshots of menopause, namely profuse night perspiration and hot flushes. But merely 1 in 5 has such disagreeable experiences which necessitate a trip to the obstetrician or general practitioner. Menopause generally develops around fifty years of age as a result of the ovaries halting production of estrogen hormone and eggs. Hot flushes arise due to plummeting levels of the oestrogen hormone and the impact it has on the section of the brain responsible for controlling body temperature (the hypothalamus). Even as night time sweating is the most prevalent symptom, the other signs comprise of nervousness, impaired memory, weariness and sleeplessness. Long-standing effects could comprise of lowered sex drive, bone thinning or osteoporosis, cardiovascular  [...]

FDA approved Home Test Kit for Women Doubtful about Menopause Symptoms

Women in the age group of forty to fifty-five years are often in doubt and would want to find out whether their lately skipped menses, hot flashes, sleeplessness, lowered libido, night time sweating, dryness in vagina or tetchiness are in fact perimenopause or menopause symptoms. The FDA-accepted Ru25 Plus is a breakthrough home testing kit. It is a duo-test system with high accuracy, uncomplicated use and within a mere five minutes time women could get outcomes of from their urine sample collected. The Ru25 Plus at-home testing kit is ideal for females in their thirties for regular checking to ascertain when their ovarian functioning has slackened and menopausal transition has started. Women could employ this test for gauging if they have turned perimenopausal and are nearing the closing  [...]

34 Menopause Symptoms

Over seventy percent of women nearing menopausal phase experience a number of the classical 34 menopause symptoms explained below. Virtually all females observe early signs while they are still menstruating. These 34 menopause symptoms generally endure for the entire menopause flux till they are in their mid-fifties; however for several women it could be life-long. 34 Menopause Symptoms: Hot/cold flashes or flushes An estimate eighty-five percent of menopausal women in U.S. experience hot flashes wherein they feel an abrupt, temporary feeling of warmness or heat spanning the body and creates reddishness or facial/ upper body flushing. Lower estrogen hormone production is the reason why the body in response creates hot flashes. Nocturnal hyperhydrosis Also known as night sweats wherein  [...]

Women’s Health Care – Valuable Guide To Hot Flashes And Menopause

Hot flashes are the commonly experienced symptoms in menopausal and perimenopausal women. Hot flashes also known as hot flushes are transitory feelings of heat which could at times lead to facial flushing, reddening and breaking into sweat. The reason for hot flashes is unknown, though it could be linked to modifications in circulation. Hot flashes are the outcome of dilatation of the blood vessels located close to the surface of the skin for cooling purposes. This leads to a reddishness and facial flushing. A woman could additionally start perspiring for cooling off the body. Few of the women could sense a fast heart rate or feel coldness. Hot flushes along with perspiration could additionally happen during night times which are known as night sweats and could hinder sleep patterns.  [...]

HRT Therapy – Delving Into The Finer Nuances – Part II

HRT and related endometrial cancer risk Low-dosage vaginal oestrogens are also used in the treatment of postmenopausal women having frequent urinary tract infection and aggravating urinary symptoms after the underlying pathology has been ruled out. There is no proof of local estrogen treatment related to any major risks. Though, when there is protracted use in cases of intact uterus, then it is advocated that an assessment of the endometrial pathology be conducted. However, the inclusion of progesterone to the oestrogen therapy lowers the chances of endometrial disease, though schedules must normally contain a minimum of ten days in every menstrual cycle. Postmenopausal women that have been on a course of sequential combo of oestrogen-progestogen treatment for greater than 5 years and  [...]

HRT Therapy – Delving Into The Finer Nuances – Part I

HRT and osteoporosis HRT or Hormone Replacement is a great treatment option for averting osteoporotic fractures during the course of its use, though its benefits plummet subsequent to its stoppage. The usage of HRT as a curative agent for this purpose alone is not counseled for majority of women. Though, in women with higher likelihood of osteoporosis, its usage could be cautiously considered, especially if other remedial agents are inapt. Raloxifene – a selective oestrogen receptor modulator or SERM that has been researched in the MORE or Multiple Outcomes of Raloxifene trial, has shown to lower the occurrence of vertebral fractures in women having osteoporosis. Though there is no current proof of safeguard against fractures in the hip or other locations. HRT and associated breast  [...]

HRT Treatment – Viable Reprieve From Menopausal Hassles

Over the span of the past two decades, menopausal medications have undergone extensive changes. The perception of passive substitution of hormone-sapped state has been replaced eventually by supervised therapy of symptomatic women. HRT or Hormone Replacement Therapy is effectual in providing symptomatic respite from bothersome menopausal symptoms and its employment for this purpose is wholly validated when the symptoms have an adverse effect on day-to-day functioning. HRT comprises of administering either a plain estrogen (conjugated estrogen) preparation or a combination of estrogen and progesterone (combo of conjugated estrogen + medroxyprogesterone acetate) advised either on acyclic or continual basis. Alongside HRT treatment, women must be adequately counselled about adhering to proper  [...]