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Whatever Happened to "Hot Flushes"

by lanfear63
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I'm having a hot flush you say. An area of my body, like my face, gets engorged (or flushed) with blood due to embarrassment, heat or perhaps a medical condition. Surely you have heard and possibly used that term before.

Well try Googling Hot Flush

The term seems to have been eradicated and replaced with something that makes no sense. I have even seen it used on TV in news broadcasts recently and thinking, why did they say that?

Added: Personally, have never heard the term. Now, if I had explained the condition to an American and asked them to complete the phrase: "Hot ......." What would you have said off the top of your head without looking it up? If you had said the current term then it explains that it is a regional (US) expression and not used in the rest of the world much.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kay King
    Seriously - this is what you want to talk about? Okaaaaaay....

    hot flush - used in Canada and maybe other places as well

    hot flash - USA terminology

    As it is one of the symptoms/problems of menopause - I doubt you have to worry about it too much.
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    • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
      Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

      Seriously - this is what you want to talk about? Okaaaaaay....

      hot flush - used in Canada and maybe other places as well

      hot flash - USA terminology

      As it is one of the symptoms/problems of menopause - I doubt you have to worry about it too much.
      So, you read the bit on Google. And just to clarify, if asked for the name off the top of your head not having read this post, you would have said "Flash" from your living memory as it has always been that way here and is part of your vocabulary you learned in school?

      I went through my Men Opause weeks ago.
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  • Profile picture of the author Odahh
    I'm simple

    Hot sauce

    I'm not going to try diagnosing you ailment. But I think productive hoboes might be a needed treatment . Boredom in retirement can be a fatal illness that ends in a Monday morning heart attack.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan Riffle
    One gets flush, but one has a hot flash (especially menopausal women).

    Seriously, Mark. It's like you're new here. Are you Starman?
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    • Profile picture of the author tagiscom
      Originally Posted by Dan Riffle View Post

      One gets flush, but one has a hot flash (especially menopausal women).

      Seriously, Mark. It's like you're new here. Are you Starman?
      Yea, l can't wait for the "Piles" thread.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kay King
    I thought brits called it 'flush'....didn't have to look it up ...most women wouldn't need to.


    Some people need to get a hobby to replace the job they retired from....or they risk sinking into a mire of miscellaneous nonsense....not mentioning names here...just sayin'...
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    • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
      Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

      I thought brits called it 'flush'....didn't have to look it up ...most women wouldn't need to.


      Some people need to get a hobby to replace the job they retired from....or they risk sinking into a mire of miscellaneous nonsense....not mentioning names here...just sayin'...
      A fair bit of the O/T is miscellaneous nonsense. Lol. It's just another one of those Americanisms in terminology that probably rarely comes up in the media and, based on what Dan said, in the cases of Flashes talked about on tv, it was not related to menopausal women so looks like it has made it's way to being a mainstream term for anything related.

      Like, "Redacted" . That term was never used much until those "reports", a few years back. Now it it seems like every Tom, Dick or Harry is using it.

      Yep, retirement does that to you, more time to discover and brood on inconsequential things like this. Lol.
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  • Profile picture of the author Princess Balestra
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    Hey bcs actschwlly I love so a hot flush.


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