What causes hot flashes and sweating?

Hot flashes are a very common phenomenon in life. This phenomenon is very harmful to the body. Generally, hot flashes are prone to occur in summer, which has a serious impact on people's bodies. It can cause patients to experience unexplained heat and sweating, and the hot flashes and sweating will not change with changes in the environment. Let's take a look at what hot flashes and sweating are all about. I hope everyone can understand.

Hot flashes, also known as flushing, are common in menopause or pre-menopause, and are often accompanied by symptoms of heat and dryness, such as sweating and palpitations. In most cases, they start from the face or chest and spread to the whole body. Some people have obvious facial flushing during an attack. Each attack can last 20 to 30 minutes, and the frequency of attacks varies, occurring several times a week, several times a day, or even every hour. Weather and ambient temperature can worsen hot flashes. Traditional Chinese medicine generally believes that the pathogenesis is caused by yin deficiency, damp heat, and gastrointestinal heat.

Causes

There are three causes of hot flashes: at the age of 79, kidney yin is insufficient, the essence of life is gradually exhausted, the body is yin deficient, worry and insomnia aggravate the depletion of ying yin, yin cannot support yang, and the virtual yang rises, resulting in "yin deficiency hot flashes and night sweats"; due to irregular diet, spleen yang is damaged, and yang is blocked by dampness, so fever can be seen in the afternoon, resulting in "damp-heat hot flashes"; due to unclean diet, heat damages the Yangming and accumulates in the intestines, so fever can also occur in the afternoon every day, which is called Yangming "evening hot flashes".

Hot flashes and sweating are characteristic symptoms of menopause. Modern medicine believes that they are caused by abnormal vasomotor function caused by estrogen fluctuations in the body. Some patients may also experience actual changes in body temperature.

prevention

1. Find the trigger

Hot flashes usually occur intermittently, and the triggers vary from person to person. Menopausal women should pay attention to changes in their daily activities, diet, environment, emotions, etc. If necessary, they can also keep a diary to help find behavioral patterns that induce hot flashes and overcome them symptomatically.

2. Avoid the stimulation of tobacco, alcohol and nicotine

Cigarettes, alcohol, nicotine, etc. can cause changes in blood pressure and mental state, so menopausal women should not drink or smoke too much, and should also avoid coffee, tea, etc.