{"id":7151,"date":"2026-09-24T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T12:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/?p=7151"},"modified":"2026-09-30T19:26:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T19:26:51","slug":"hot-flushes-where-they-come-from-how-long-they-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/en\/hot-flushes-where-they-come-from-how-long-they-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot flushes: where they come from, how long they last and what you can measure yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<article class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<link rel=\"preconnect\" href=\"https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\">\n<link rel=\"preconnect\" href=\"https:\/\/fonts.gstatic.com\" crossorigin>\n<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css2?family=Poppins:wght@300;400;500;600;700&#038;display=swap\">\n<style id=\"bp-blog-design\">\n.bp-blog {\n  --bp-ink: #212527; --bp-teal: #005859; --bp-teal-deep: #006B62; --bp-emerald: #228A62;\n  --bp-green: #7CA74D; --bp-lime: #B7CB33; --bp-lime-soft: #B7CB3329; --bp-green-aa: #4F6B28;\n  --bp-beige: #EDEAE5; --bp-sand: #DBD4CB; --bp-pale-teal: #D9E6E6; --bp-white: #FFFFFF;\n  --bp-foot: #6b6b6b;\n  --bp-font: 'Poppins','Segoe UI',Arial,sans-serif;\n  --bp-fs-h1: 40px; --bp-fs-h2: 29px; --bp-fs-h3: 21px; --bp-fs-body: 17px;\n  --bp-fs-lead: 19px; --bp-fs-small: 14px; --bp-fs-foot: 13px; --bp-fs-btn: 17px;\n  --bp-lh-body: 1.75;\n  --bp-s-2: 8px; --bp-s-3: 12px; --bp-s-4: 16px; --bp-s-5: 24px; --bp-s-6: 32px;\n  --bp-s-7: 44px; --bp-s-8: 72px;\n  --bp-measure: 875px; --bp-prose: 875px; --bp-side: 40px; --bp-portrait: 132px;\n  --bp-radius-card: 20px; --bp-radius-btn: 10px; --bp-radius-chip: 999px;\n  --bp-shadow: 0 10px 30px rgba(0,88,89,0.10); --bp-shadow-soft: 0 2px 10px rgba(0,88,89,0.06);\n  font-family: var(--bp-font); font-size: var(--bp-fs-body); line-height: var(--bp-lh-body);\n  color: var(--bp-ink); background: var(--bp-white); -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;\n}\n.bp-blog, .bp-blog * { box-sizing: border-box; }\n.bp-blog p, .bp-blog li, .bp-blog h1, .bp-blog h2, .bp-blog h3, .bp-blog a, .bp-blog td,\n.bp-blog th, .bp-blog cite { overflow-wrap: break-word; min-width: 0; }\n.bp-blog h1, .bp-blog h2, .bp-blog h3 { text-wrap: balance; }\n.bp-blog p, .bp-blog li { text-wrap: pretty; }\n\/* WordPress core's flow layout puts 24px above every child after the first; inside\n   a grid or a flex row that is a misalignment (measured on the scan pages 2026-08-21) *\/\n.bp-blog .bp-blog-author > *, .bp-blog .bp-blog-related > *, .bp-blog .bp-blog-verify > * { margin-block: 0; }\n\n\/* --- sections: one column, the article measure, the section rhythm ------------ *\/\n.bp-blog-sec { position: relative; background: var(--bp-white); margin-block: 0;\n  padding-block: var(--bp-s-7);\n  padding-inline: max(var(--bp-side), calc((100% - var(--bp-measure)) \/ 2)); }\n.bp-blog-sec > *:last-child { margin-block-end: 0; }\n.bp-blog-sec > p, .bp-blog-sec > ul, .bp-blog-sec > ol, .bp-blog-sec > .wp-block-quote,\n.bp-blog-sec > .bp-blog-faq-item, .bp-blog-sec > .bp-blog-takeaways, .bp-blog-sec > .bp-blog-toc,\n.bp-blog-sec > .bp-blog-refs, .bp-blog-sec > .bp-blog-srclead { max-width: var(--bp-prose); }\n.bp-blog-sec--head { padding-block: var(--bp-s-7) 0; }\n.bp-blog-sec--body { padding-block: var(--bp-s-6) var(--bp-s-7); }\n.bp-blog-sec--beige { background: var(--bp-beige); }\n.bp-blog-sec--wash { background: linear-gradient(180deg, #B7CB331A 0%, #B7CB330D 100%), #FFFFFF; }\n.bp-blog-sec--tight { padding-block: var(--bp-s-6); }\n\/* A COLOURED SECTION IS A PANEL, so it carries the panel radius. 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That matters, because once you know what is happening, you can choose better what you do about it. It starts in your chest or your neck, moves up to your face in a few seconds, and then you are sweating while everyone around you simply sits there. At night it wakes you up and the duvet ends up on the floor. Hot flushes are the best known complaint of the menopause, and still most women do not know where they come from, how long they last or what they can measure themselves. <a href=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/en\/scan-hormone-test\/\">The BioProfile hormone scan<\/a> measures how much trouble these complaints give you, and gives you an indication of where you stand today in this area, the first of the 11 health areas the full scan assesses. This is not a diagnosis. It is insight, to see where you stand today. And to help you make better choices in your food and your lifestyle. What this scan does not do: measure a hormone or make a diagnosis. Only a doctor can do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-takeaways is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In short<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>A hot flush is an exaggerated cooling response: your body reacts to a small rise in your core temperature as if you were overheated, because the zone in which it does not have to do anything has become narrower.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n<li>In a cohort followed for thirteen years, the median duration of moderate to severe hot flushes was 10.2 years.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">2<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n<li>A hormone scan measures how much trouble you have from hot flushes and other menopausal symptoms and gives you a baseline. It does not measure a hormone and does not make a diagnosis.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-toc is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"bp-blog-toclabel wp-block-paragraph\">Contents<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li><a href=\"#wat-een-opvlieger-is\">What a hot flush is<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#hoe-lang-opvliegers-duren\">How long hot flushes last<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#wat-samenhangt-met-meer-opvliegers\">What is linked with more hot flushes<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#opvliegers-en-slaap\">Hot flushes and sleep<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#wat-een-hormoonscan-meet\">What a hormone scan measures<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#wat-een-hormoonscan-niet-meet\">What a hormone scan does not measure<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#wat-je-met-je-score-doet\">What you do with your score<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#veelgestelde-vragen\">Frequently asked questions<\/a><\/li>\n\n<\/ol>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"wat-een-opvlieger-is\">What a hot flush is<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You suddenly feel very warm, you go red, you sweat and sometimes your heart pounds. A hot flush usually lasts 3 to 5 minutes, sometimes longer, and most women going through the menopause have them, from a few a month to a few an hour.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">3<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What happens then is a cooling response far too large for what set it off. Normally your body has a window in which a small swing in core temperature starts nothing at all: only above the upper limit do you begin to sweat, only below the lower limit do you begin to shiver. During the menopause that window narrows, partly because oestrogen falls away and partly because of higher activity in the part of your nervous system that puts your body on alert. A small rise in core temperature then reaches the upper limit straight away, and your body answers with heavy sweating and the blood flow to your skin thrown wide open, as if you were overheated.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"hoe-lang-opvliegers-duren\">How long hot flushes last<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thuisarts puts it at usually 3 to 7 years.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">3<\/a><\/sup> The two large cohorts that followed women for years came out higher. In the American SWAN study, 1,449 of the 3,302 women followed had frequent hot flushes or night sweats; for them the median duration of those complaints was 7.4 years, for more than half of them longer than seven years, and in the 881 of them whose last period was established during the study, the complaints carried on for a median of 4.5 years after that. Those who began early, before or at the start of the menopause, came out at a median above 11.8 years; those who only began after the last period, at 3.4 years.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">4<\/a><\/sup> A second cohort, followed for thirteen years, came out at a median of 10.2 years for moderate to severe hot flushes, with the start most often between the ages of 45 and 49.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"wat-samenhangt-met-meer-opvliegers\">What goes together with more hot flushes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 3,198 women who were followed for six years, the stage was linked most strongly with hot flushes: in the late transition the chance was more than six times as high as before that. Smoking, a higher weight and anxiety symptoms at the start of the study were also linked with more frequent hot flushes.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">5<\/a><\/sup> That is an association, not a cause, but these are the things that belong on the table in a conversation with a doctor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thuisarts also names what can set off a hot flush: alcohol, above all when it comes to sweating at night, hot drinks and spicy food.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">3<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"opvliegers-en-slaap\">Hot flushes and sleep<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many hot flushes at night coincide with a measurable awakening, and the time you then lie awake counts for a good deal of the total restlessness of the night; 26 per cent of women going through the menopause have sleep problems bad enough to get in the way during the day.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">6<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What stands out is which hot flushes do that. In 52 women who were measured at home for four full days and nights, with a skin sensor for the hot flushes and a wrist monitor for sleep, the hot flushes they remembered in the morning were linked with worse sleep: less efficient and with more time awake. The hot flushes the sensor recorded but that they had not noticed barely did so.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">7<\/a><\/sup> So what you notice yourself is exactly what counts for your day, and that is exactly what a questionnaire records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"wat-een-hormoonscan-meet\">What a hormone scan measures<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hormone scan starts with your stage of life. Women in or around the menopause get four questions about the past few weeks, and the first one is about hot flushes or night sweats; the other three about vaginal dryness, irritability or mood swings, and sleep that is disturbed by hormonal changes. Each question is given points, the points are converted into a hormone score from 0 to 100, with the reading band it falls into. Higher is better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The questions are modelled on the Menopause Rating Scale, a questionnaire of eleven questions in three groups, physical, psychological and urogenital, which has been tested in nine countries and turned out to measure the same thing everywhere.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">8<\/a><\/sup> Our four questions follow that construct in our own words, are not a copy of it, and so the score is not a validated clinical score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"wat-een-hormoonscan-niet-meet\">What a hormone scan does not measure<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Complaints, never hormones. The scan says nothing about your oestrogen, your testosterone or your thyroid; only a blood test sees a hormone, and pronounced complaints are the reason to ask for one. A hormone scan does not make a diagnosis. Four things are a reason to make an appointment with your GP: very heavy bleeding, complaints before the age of forty, bleeding more than a year after your last period, and a lot of trouble from hot flushes.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">9<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"wat-je-met-je-score-doet\">What you do with your score<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A score from today is your baseline. Repeat the scan in a few weeks, over the same questions, and you have two numbers instead of a feeling about a stage that lasts years. If you want to try something in those weeks, pick something from the Thuisarts list and keep track of what you notice: the hot flushes you remember are the hot flushes that cost you sleep.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">7<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-sec bp-blog-cta is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Measure where you start<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Four questions for women in or around the menopause, about three minutes, and your hormone score is in your dashboard. What the hormone scan measures and what it is based on is on the scan page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/en\/scan-hormone-test\/\">Start the hormone scan<\/a><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bp-blog-ctamicro wp-block-paragraph\">Free, about 3 minutes. An analysis of your answers, never a diagnosis. <a href=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/en\/free-health-check-tests\/\">All health scans<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-sec bp-blog-sec--wash is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"veelgestelde-vragen\">Frequently asked questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-faq-item is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What brings on hot flushes?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because the temperature window has become too narrow. Normally your body does nothing when your core temperature shifts a little; during the menopause that window becomes narrower, partly because oestrogen falls away, and a small rise immediately sets off sweating and a wide flow of blood through the skin.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-faq-item is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">At what age do you get hot flushes?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a cohort followed for thirteen years, moderate to severe hot flushes most often began between the ages of 45 and 49.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">2<\/a><\/sup> The last period comes at 51 on average.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">9<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-faq-item is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How long does a hot flush last?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Usually 3 to 5 minutes, sometimes longer, half an hour for example. How often they come varies from a few a month to a few an hour.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">3<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-faq-item is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What can you do yourself about hot flushes?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thuisarts sets out what you can try: less alcohol, above all against sweating at night, watching hot drinks and spicy food, clothes of cotton, silk or wool, moving your body, enough sleep and stopping smoking.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">3<\/a><\/sup> Whether it does anything for you, you only see if you have recorded where you started.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-sec bp-blog-sec--beige bp-blog-sec--tight is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"bronnen\">Sources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bp-blog-srclead wp-block-paragraph\">Every source below was checked on the day this article was published. The numbering follows the text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list bp-blog-refs\">\n\n<li>Freedman RR. Menopausal hot flashes: mechanisms, endocrinology, treatment. The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2014. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jsbmb.2013.08.010\">doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jsbmb.2013.08.010<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li>Freeman EW, Sammel MD, Lin H, Liu Z, Gracia CR. Duration of menopausal hot flushes and associated risk factors. Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2011. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1097\/AOG.0b013e318214f0de\">doi.org\/10.1097\/AOG.0b013e318214f0de<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li>Thuisarts.nl (Nederlands Huisartsen Genootschap). I am going through the menopause and I have hot flushes. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thuisarts.nl\/overgang\/ik-ben-in-overgang-en-heb-opvliegers\">thuisarts.nl<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li>Avis NE, Crawford SL, Greendale G, et al. Duration of menopausal vasomotor symptoms over the menopause transition. JAMA Internal Medicine, 2015. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamainternmed.2014.8063\">doi.org\/10.1001\/jamainternmed.2014.8063<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li>Gold EB, Colvin A, Avis N, et al. Longitudinal analysis of the association between vasomotor symptoms and race\/ethnicity across the menopausal transition: Study of Women&#8217;s Health Across the Nation. American Journal of Public Health, 2006. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2105\/AJPH.2005.066936\">doi.org\/10.2105\/AJPH.2005.066936<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li>Baker FC, de Zambotti M, Colrain IM, Bei B. Sleep problems during the menopausal transition: prevalence, impact, and management challenges. Nature and Science of Sleep, 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2147\/NSS.S125807\">doi.org\/10.2147\/NSS.S125807<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li>Thurston RC, Santoro N, Matthews KA. Are vasomotor symptoms associated with sleep characteristics among symptomatic midlife women? Comparisons of self-report and objective measures. Menopause, 2012. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1097\/gme.0b013e3182422973\">doi.org\/10.1097\/gme.0b013e3182422973<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li>Heinemann K, Ruebig A, Potthoff P, et al. The Menopause Rating Scale (MRS) scale: a methodological review. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2004. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/1477-7525-2-45\">doi.org\/10.1186\/1477-7525-2-45<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li>Thuisarts.nl (Nederlands Huisartsen Genootschap). 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