What Are the Causes of Hot Flashes?

Hot flashes, also known as flushing, are common in menopause or menopause. They are often accompanied by sweating and heart palpitations. In most cases, they start from the face or chest and spread to the whole body. Some people can see obvious flushing on the face when they have an attack. Each episode can last for 20 to 30 minutes, and the number of episodes can vary. It can occur several times a week, several times a day, or even every hour. Weather and ambient temperature can exacerbate hot flashes. Traditional Chinese medicine generally believes that the pathogenesis is caused by yin deficiency, damp heat, and real gastrointestinal heat.

Basic Information

nickname

Flushing

English name

tidal fever

Visiting department

Traditional Chinese Medicine

Multiple groups

Menopause and menopause

Common causes

Yin deficiency, damp heat, real gastrointestinal fever

Common symptoms

Different syndromes will be accompanied by different systemic symptoms and tongue veins

Causes of hot flashes

There are three causes of hot flashes: due to the lack of kidney yin during the seventy-seven years period, the sky is gradually exhausted, the body is yin deficiency, and insomnia is anxious. "Because of a plain diet, the spleen and yang are impaired, and the yang is blocked by dampness. It can be seen that the fever in the afternoon is" wet, hot and hot. " It can also have fever in the afternoon every day, which is called Yangming's "Sundial Hot Flash".

Hot flashes and sweating are characteristic symptoms of menopause. Modern medicine believes that the vasomotor function is caused by estrogen fluctuations in the body, and some patients may be accompanied by actual body temperature changes.

Clinical manifestations of hot flashes

Different syndromes are accompanied by different systemic symptoms and tongue veins. Yin deficiency type can be associated with menstrual disorders, more or less, red color, dizziness, tinnitus, five upset fever, weak waist and knees, red tongue and less moss, pulse count; damp-heat type can be associated with heavy menstrual flow, cycle disorders, bands The lower the amount, appetite, diarrhea, greasy tongue coating, pulse count; real gastrointestinal heat can be accompanied by thirst, upset, abdominal distension, constipation, thick yellow fur, pulse count.

Hot flashes are a common symptom of menopause and menopause and can occur years before menopause. Dryness usually occurs at the same time as sweating and palpitations, lasting 20 to 30 minutes. The feeling of dryness usually starts from the face or chest, and may also start from other parts such as the back of the neck, etc., and spreads quickly throughout the body. Some patients consciously accompany the symptoms of syncope.

Some patients have obvious flushing on the face. Hot flashes can occur several times a day, several times a week, or every few minutes.

There are also menopausal women who have not experienced hot flashes. Most women have mild hot flashes during menopause, with severe patients having dozens of attacks a day. Fluctuations in hot flashes can be exacerbated by changes in natural temperature and ambient temperature.

Severe fever is often accompanied by insomnia, which can affect mood and cause mental health problems. Some women only experience hot flashes and night sweats at night, and they do not experience attacks during the day.

Hot flash syndrome treatment

Chinese medicine treatment

(1) Yin deficiency type: tonifying the kidney and nourishing yin, and communicating the heart and kidney. Recipe: Zhibai Dihuang Wan and Ganmai Jujube Soup or Zhibai Dihuang Wan combined with Tianwang Buxin Dan.

(2) Damp-heat type The spleen is good for dampness and fever. Recipe: Shenling Baizhu Powder with flavor.

(3) Real-heat type: clearing heat and reducing heat. Recipe: Xiaocheng Chengqi Decoction.

2. Food therapy

Patients with hot flashes and sweats should eat cool, nourishing yin and health-producing fruits such as watermelon, pear, mandarin orange, orange, banana, apple, persimmon, loofah, lily, tomato, fresh lotus root, white fungus, lotus seed, turtle, etc. Avoid spicy and hot products.

3. Acupuncture

Acupoint selection: Hegu, Yinlingquan, Jianshi, Sanyinjiao, Guan Yuan, plus and minus compatibility according to the type of evidence.

Hot flash prevention

1. Find incentives

Hot flashes are often intermittent, and there are individual causes. Menopausal women should pay attention to all changes in their activities, diet, environment, and emotions on a daily basis. If necessary, they can also keep a diary to help find hot-blood-induced behavior patterns and overcome hot flashes.

2. Avoid the irritation of cigarettes, alcohol and nicotine

Tobacco, alcohol, nicotine, etc. can cause changes in blood pressure and mentality, so menopausal women should not drink too much alcohol, smoke, coffee, tea, etc. should also be avoided.

3. Relax

When hot flashes appear, you should pay attention to stabilizing your emotions. You can use relaxation and contemplation. Imagine yourself in a cool place, calm in the cold, and you can also drink a glass of cold water. It can also help to reduce hot flashes.

4. Take a deep breath

Breathing when the heat begins to sting the skin and climb up the neck has a certain effect. Exhausting the gas in the lungs as much as possible, then expanding the diaphragm muscles and inhaling deeply. Maintaining a steady rhythm can often control hot flashes to a certain extent before sweating.