Menopausal Hormone Therapy (MHT).

Menopausal Hormone Therapy (MHT).

Understanding your options for managing menopause symptoms effectively.

What is Menopausal Hormone Therapy?

Menopause Hormone Therapy (MHT) helps with symptoms like hot flushes and night sweats.3,4

Oestrogen therapy is an effective means of treating symptoms. It is also used to help prevent bone loss.

Types of Menopause Hormone therapy (MHT)

Oestrogen-only

By taking oestrogen-only MHT, you are replacing the oestrogen levels in your body so that your oestrogen levels are similar to what they were before menopause.

This helps relieve your menopausal symptoms, such as vasomotor symptoms (VMS), including hot flushes and night sweats.

Oestrogen plus progestogen

For women with a uterus:

Women with a uterus need hormone therapy with both oestrogen and progestogen.

Oestrogen alone can overstimulate the cells lining the uterus, causing an increased risk of endometrial cancer (cancer of the uterus).Taking progestogen alongside oestrogen helps to minimise this risk.1,5,9

Treatment

Menopausal Hormone Therapy (MHT) helps with symptoms like hot flushes and night sweats.3,4
Oestrogen therapy
is an effective means of treating these symptoms. It is also used to help prevent bone loss.
Progesterone
is used alongside oestrogen therapy for those with a uterus.

Our Treatment Options

Pharmaco is proud to offer Estrogel for oestrogen therapy and Utrogestan for micronised progesterone therapy.

Learn About Estrogel Learn About Utrogestan

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