Thread: What are "Hot Flashes"?

i know women get them but do teens get them too? or what? idk what they are

I get them a LOT and I'm a 14yo girl

I don't really have the best explanation and i dont really know why we get em but I get em usually if i stand up too fast when sitting down and when its REALLLLLY hot out, Its kinda like what you see before you faint. Everything goes all white and "white noise" like and you loose your balance since you cant see

teens can get them too, like ull kinda get a flash of heat in ur head.

http://www.breastcancer.org/tips/menopausal/facing/hot_flashes.jsp

Hot flashes are the sudden, intense, hot feeling on your face and upper body, perhaps preceded or accompanied by a rapid heartbeat and sweating, nausea, dizziness, anxiety, headache, weakness, or a feeling of suffocation.

Hot flashes are mostly caused by the hormonal changes of menopause, but can also be affected by lifestyle and medications.

Eighty-five percent of the women in the United States experience hot flashes of some kind as they approach menopause and for the first year or two after their periods stop. Between 20 and 50% of women continue to have them for many more years. As time goes on, the intensity decreases.

Hot flash triggers:

alcohol
caffeine
diet pills
spicy food
hot food
hot tubs
saunas
hot showers
hot beds

Hope I helped ! (:

i'm a teen and i get them occasionally. mostly when i'm sick

i'm a teen and i get them occasionally. mostly when i'm sick

When the flash of an atomic bomb goes off you get really hot. That's what a hot flash is

hot flashes or "flushes" are caused my hormonal changes. so it's possible for teens to get them too. it's like a part of your body heats up for a few seconds, then it goes away.

it only happens during menopause, so no. teens won't get them very often.