Hot flushes

Hot flushes or hot flashes

Prevalence

 * In a 2001 Belgian study, 64.8% of patients meeting the Fukuda criteria and 72.6% of patients meeting the Holmes criteria, in a cohort of 2073 CFS patients, reported hot flushes.

Symptom recognition
The Canadian Consensus Criteria for ME/CFS recognizes hot flushes as a neuroendocrine system symptom.