No need to get in such a sweat during the menopause transition

Aisling Grimley launched MySecondSpring.ieto help increase awareness about the menopause.

THE current TV ad campaign on our screens has a swimsuit-clad woman sitting in her garden cooling herself down with ice cubes as a bemused man questions why she would be behaving this way, in the “depths of winter”.

He’s one of a middle-aged couple passing by and his female partner knows only too well, as she sympathetically reaches into her handbag for the solution she’s found to easing hot flushes.