Menopausal Hyperhidrosis, What Are the Causes and How to Effectively Manage?

hello.
I’m Dr. Sangchul Hwang, an autonomic nervous system researcher and therapist.

Today, we’re going to talk about a topic that’s more relevant to women than men,
“menopausal hyperhidrosis”.

“I’m probably still okay.”
“It can’t be me,” you think,
Most women will experience menopausal hyperhidrosis symptomsat some point in their lives.

Menopause Symptoms, and the ‘Hyperhidrosis’ Behind Them

The most commonly talked about menopausal symptoms include
hot flashes, hot flashes, mood swings, and musculoskeletal pain.

But between these symptoms
a surprisingly under-recognized but very common condition,
is hyperhidrosis.

Anyone can sweat when the weather is hot or when they’re nervous.
But hyperhidrosisis when you sweat excessively, even when it’s not particularly hot and you’re not doing anything.

Sweating in hyperhidrosis ‘comes in degrees’

If you’re actually sweating really hard
even if you’re standing still and moving your body a little bit.
you’re so drenched from head to toe that other people think you just took a shower.

It’s normal to sweat when it’s hot.
However, the sweating of people with hyperhidrosis is ‘excessive’.

Especially before menopause
Going through life without being particularly aware of sweating,
and then suddenly experience an explosion of sweating around menopause.

Menopausal Hyperhidrosis, Why Does It Happen?

During menopause, the following changes typically occur simultaneously

Rapid changes in female hormones
Accumulated stress
Accelerated aging of the body

Emotional exhaustion from a lifetime of living,
the pressures of family and social roles,
and the inevitable aging process
and the inevitable aging process.

During this process, the body becomes increasingly weak,
and the blood and fluids the body needs become scarce.
hyperhidrosis becomes a full-blown condition.

Menopausal hyperhidrosis is often not resolved by hormone therapy alone

When menopause symptoms occur
most people focus on changes in female hormone levels.

So, with hormone therapy
hot flashes and hot flashes can be controlled to some extent with hormone therapy.

However, hyperhidrosis is very often not well controlled by hormone therapy.

Why?

Menopausal hyperhidrosis is divided into two main types

Stress-induced dysautonomic hyperhidrosis

In this case, if you look at the patients

I feel like I’m always being chased and
Anger is piling up and
It’s frustrating and
Breathing is often shallow and rapid.

If I take your pulse at your appointment
Your heart’s rhythm is often tense or irregular.

At this point, a common Chinese medicine phrase is
“Heat in the heart.”
“Heat in the lungs.”
is an expression.

This is because stress causes the
diaphragm and rib cage tense up
chest breathing, the temperature inside the rib cage rises,
and the reaction to release that heat as sweat is hyperhidrosis.

Functional hyperhidrosis due to physical aging

Sweat is released through the sweat pores.
However, these pores also age as we age.

In Chinese medicine, this is called
“qi deficiency” state,
a state of low physical strength and immunity.

In this case, the

It flows even when it’s not supposed to.
When it’s time to sweat, it’s overdone, and the
It is characterized by extreme fatiguewith even the slightest amount of sweat.

So, menopausal hyperhidrosis is a combination of ‘autonomic nervous system + aging’

Menopausal hyperhidrosis is not just
“having a lot of heat” is not a problem.

Autonomic imbalance
Poor sweat gland function
Lack of energy and fluids
Poor resilience to stress

It’s a symptom of a combinationof all of these factors.

This is why hormone therapy alone is often not enough to solve the problem.

Astragalus-Arrowroot Tea for Menopausal Hyperhidrosis

Today, we’re going to introduce you to an herbal tea called
astragalus-arrowroot tea,which can help with menopausal hyperhidrosis.

In Chinese Medicine
Astragalus was originally used for hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating),
sweat pores, and is said to be energizing and invigorating.

And arrowroot
fever-reducing,
and relaxes tense muscles and diaphragm.
making it an excellent choice for menopausal hot flashes and nervous hyperhidrosis.

✅ Menopausal Hyperhidrosis Tea Basic Recipe

12 g astragalus
16 g arrowroot
4 g ginger

Arrowroot has cooling properties.
so it’ s important to balance it out with ginger if you have a cold stomach.

Menopause Symptoms, It’s Not Just About Hormones

Many people think
“I just need to supplement with female hormones”,
but in reality, many of the symptoms of menopause are deeply connected to autonomic imbalance.

I’ve spent the last 10 years
I have been treating patients with menopausal syndrome, hyperhidrosis, insomnia, overactive bladder, fibromyalgia, etc.
and fibromyalgia, among other conditions.

Menopause, in particular, is one of the
is one of those conditionsthat, if caught in time,can be treated quickly.