Christine Webb, Your Health and Fitness
Hot flashes, a common symptom of menopause, may soon be a thing of the past.
A doctor in Rhode Island has invented a new spray to treat them, and it has gotten the OK from the Food and Drug Administration.
Dr. John Buster, a reproductive endocrinologyst at Women and Infants Hospital, helped develop the new spray to bring down the heat.
"The closest approximation we're able to find to replacing the hormone that those women are missing, and not just replacing it, but replacing it in the same form, made naturally," Buster said.
The spray is called Evamist, and it is an alternative to estrogen patches, pills and gels. Just hold the spray to your skin, and the hormone absorbs in the body, and hot flashes will likely fade.
You should not use Evamist if you have a bleeding or blood-clotting disorder, liver or kidney disease, or a history of stroke or circulation problems.
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