Wednesday 15 June 2022 11:40 PM HRT crisis: Menopause shouldn't be 'medicalised' into something that ALWAYS ... trends now
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The menopause is at risk of being ‘medicalised’ into something that always needs to be treated, experts have argued.
Most women do not wish to have treatment such as hormone replacement therapy (HRT) unless their symptoms are severe, researchers said.
Writing in the British Medical Journal yesterday, the experts argued the ‘message that menopause signals decay and decline’ is widely reinforced but makes women ‘expect the worst’.
The researchers, from King’s College London and universities in the US and Australia, wrote: ‘Medicalisation and its narrow focus on symptoms may fuel women’s negative expectations of menopause and influence what physical and emotional experiences they attribute to it.’
Celebrities such as Davina McCall, pictured, have campaigned on behalf of menopausal women who have been finding it difficult to secure supplies of HRT to help counter the symptoms
