How to Deal with the Hot Flashes in PKD

2016-10-06 09:39

Hot flashes is often caused by the changing hormone levels that are characteristic of menopause, some of the PKD patient also will experience it. Then, how to deal with the hot flashes in PKD?

Basics about hot flashes

Hot flashes makes people feel uncomfortable. It is typically experienced as a feeling of intense heat with sweating and rapid heartbeat. The sensation of heat usually begins in the face or chest, although it may appear elsewhere such as the back of the neck, and it can spread throughout the whole body. Some women feel as if they are going to faint. Also the surface of the skin, especially of the face, becomes hot to the touch. The severe hot flashes can make it difficult to get a full night’s sleep, which in turn can affect mood and is not good for the prognosis of PKD.

How to deal with the hot flashes in PKD?

Firstly, we need to find out the reason causing the hot flashes. If we can rule out the decline in estrogen level and vasomotor dysfunction, then we should consider whether your kidney function has already been impaired. You need to go and do related checkup. Remember that males are also likely to experience hot flashes.

There are some certain foods also will cause hot flashes, such as coffee, tea, sugars, fried foods, potato chips, peanuts, pastries, candies and concentrated sugars, so as a PKD patient you also should avoid to eat it.

Black cohosh is another alternative herbal treatment. It alone or with other botanical therapies can be used to relieve hot flashes or other vasomotor symptoms associated with menopause.

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