My mother who has dementia is experiencing extreme heat in her head and face. This happens several times a week. It makes her feel sick and a bit delirious. Cold compresses help but to pull out the heat, but are only a panacea. The doctors have no idea. I'm wondering if it's connected to dementia. She is in reasonable health otherwise, but for anxiety attacks. These heat spells do not seem connected to her anxiety. The spells pass after a few hours and then often come back again the next day. Have an of your lovely people ever heard of this? Thanks for any responses.
Also, menopausal symptoms make the face feel hot. Other hormonal problems could possibly cause a hot feeling to the face, such as thyroid problems.
Medication can cause hot flashes too. So no other symptoms along with the hot feelings on the face and neck?
This is the kind of mystery symptom that most doctors hate to deal with.
But I'd see her internist for a thorough check and blood work.
Just keeping you company here, no real answer. Your mom’s redness is much worse than my mom’s.
My mom’s face, especially her nose would turn red every once in awhile just out of nowhere. Once she was in the hospital and it did that. Doctors were not concerned. This didn’t happen often and we wondered if it was that she was under such scrutiny that we noticed it and it had always done so?
We let it go because anytime she bent over to retrieve something from the floor and the blood would rush to her head, her face would flush. Not like her nose that day but noticeable. Some people will flush bright red on their chest when nervous.
My moms face was not hot to the touch. Just red. Her brother does the same. Their skin was/is very fair and they both had/have abundant white hair so it really shows up.
Some people will do this when they are about to cry, you may have noticed, but again usually not as red.
I’ve been doing some reading on thyroid issues.
Sometimes younger women will think they are having menopause symptoms and it turns out to be thyroid problems. So I just now googled
will hypothyroidism cause hot red face and I got several hits. Seems they sometimes think it’s a skin disorder and treat it for that with no success and then find out it was their thyroid.
So you might ask your mom’s doctors to check that. I know it’s routinely checked with blood work so may be easy to rule out.
Let us know if you find the cause.
Keep a food diary that coincides with the episodes.
Maybe she also itches in one place on her back after meals.
Have her liver checked.
Just guessing, just wondering, just trying to contribute ideas.