Menopause: Help, I have hot flashes!
In the broad field of women's health, one notable disturbance often affects women's quality of life: hot flashes.
Associated mainly with the menopause , these sudden surges of heat disrupt the daily lives of 8 million French women for an average of 7 years.
Let’s dive into this topic, examine its possible origins, and explore the various ways to master them.
Hot flashes: what are they?
Menopause causes a drop in levels estrogen , which disrupts the regulation of body temperature, generating hot flashes that can occur as early as pre-menopause and persist in post-menopause .
Hot flashes are characterized by a sudden rise in temperature in the face, neck and chest, accompanied by sweating and redness. They occur unpredictably between 1 and 15 times a day for affected women, disrupting their daily lives during periods of menopause , of pre-menopause and even of postmenopause , with variations in their frequency and intensity.
How to identify hot flashes?
These episodes result from dilation of small blood vessels due to the hormonal imbalance of menopause, causing a sudden feeling of intense heat. They are often accompanied by redness, excessive sweating, heart palpitations, chills, and can even cause discomfort. Their nocturnal appearance called "night sweats" disrupts sleep, causing fatigue and irritability, the intensity of which varies from person to person.
Adapting your daily life to control your hot flashes
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Change your lifestyle : Alcohol, tobacco, spicy foods and medications can also trigger hot flashes in response to various stimuli. Exercise
- Managing your stress : Practice relaxation exercises, such as meditation, to reduce stress and anxiety, helping to alleviate hot flashes.
- Hydrate daily : Drink small sips of ice water as soon as a hot flash begins to relieve symptoms.
- Practice sports : sports: walking, cycling, running, etc. could help regulate hormones and therefore hot flashes. Gentler sports practices, such as yoga for example, could reduce the occurrence of hot flashes.
The Athana device, the French innovation that relieves hot flashes
The Athana device is a portable "electronic ice cube" that relieves hot flashes in seconds, it uses the cryotherapy , a natural cold therapy.
Simply turn on the device and apply the cold part to the back of your neck, chest or wrists to feel the cold soothe your hot flashes.
During a hot flash, skin temperature increases due to hormonal imbalance. To counteract this phenomenon, the Athana device will diffuse cold waves between 5 and 10°C on the heat-sensitive areas of the body.
Within seconds, skin temperature drops, redness disappears and sweating stops.
- Without medication or hormonal treatment
Athana uses cryotherapy, good through cold. A natural alternative, without chemicals and odorless.
- Anywhere, anytime
At the office, at home or outdoors, use Athana to relieve your daily hot flashes.
- Great autonomy
The device is recharged by battery, 40 min of recharge to relieve 20 hot flashes.