Activities and lifestyle

Wear lighter fabrics like cotton or rayon. These help to let heat escape and let air in to help keep you cool. If you can carry a bottle of cold water with you or can access ice water often, do it. This will help cool your inner organs and will help you get through the heat. Another thing that will help when a hot flash sets in is a cool shower. You might want to turn the water temperature down as far as you can. However, you want the water cool to your touch, but not frigid. Cooling the body too fast can cause shock and/or heart failure.

There are a few more symptoms that tend to irritate not only the woman going through menopause, but also tends to irritate those who are close to her. Mood swings, fatigue, low to no sex drive and insomnia are the most common. While there are prescribed medications to help ease these symptoms and help you sleep, there are more healthy and natural ways.

Being more active will help you sleep at night, especially if you run, work out, or practice pilates or yoga. Yoga emphasizes more on breathing, while pilates focuses more on muscle toning. If you’ve never done yoga or pilates, it is a workout for both the body and mind that will leave you feeling relaxed. Meditation, massage and acupuncture will help you to relax your mind and body. There are books out about meditation and many massage clinics have special prices and deals if you refer or go with a friend. When deciding on massage or acupuncture clinics, make sure you ask them about the way that they clean their tables and what product they use to clean with. There would be nothing worse than to go into a clinic to relax and end up with an allergic reaction to the sanitizing solution that they use. Acupuncture is best when it is done by someone who has been doing it for years and is fully certified, and then you can be sure that they know what they are doing to relax you to the maximum.

Preventing Menopause

Preventing menopause, for the time being, is purely pharmaceutical. Menopause literally is a failure of the ovaries. There are medications out there that can help to prevent the failure, however, a person either needs extremely good insurance or needs to be able to afford the costly medications. The side effects that are caused by the hormonal medications tend to be nausea, headache, dry mouth, fever, upset stomach, depression, and diarrhea, though different women react differently to the medications.

Eventually, you would get over the side effects and settle into a more natural routine with the medications. Menopausal prevention is entirely possible but it is an expensive route. Perhaps someone will come up with a completely natural way to prevent menopause. One that contains a healthier, safer, more cost effective treatment plan that people who can’t afford expensive medications will be able to pay for or can be covered by health insurance.

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Herbal remedies, exercises for body and mind, statistics, and expensive menopause preventive medications. All of these can seem overwhelming when a woman takes them to heart and starts thinking about them all at once. Breaking down the information, and starting to study about how their bodies will change when they are in their thirties or forties will help ease the shock of the sudden changes.

Taking each day, a step at a time, and remembering that there are ways to ease the discomfort and depression will help make menopausal symptoms seem like an every day occurrence. Remember that smoking will cause menopause to happen a year and a half early and that alcohol and caffeine will stimulate hot flashes. While it will take time for a woman to fully adjust to the fact that her body is going through multiple changes, eventually they will get used to the type of therapy that they decide to use that they feel is best for them and their body.