TIPS

Beverly McKee offers the following tips to deal with menopause:

Hot flashes

– Avoid or lessen your intake of caffeine and/or alcoholic beverages. Both help widen blood vessels, and this is the last thing you need before an impending hot flash, she says. Vaginal dryness

– There is lubrication for intercourse, and there is hormonal replacement therapy cream that can be applied to the vaginal walls to assist in decreasing the dryness and pain that some women feel with intercourse after menopause.

Hair thinning/bald patches

– There are specific medications that can be utilized.

Peach fuzz

– There are creams, laser, and electrolysis available, all with varying costs.

Bone mineral density loss

– Supplements can be taken, and there is a need to increase calcium to one’s diet.