PREVENT AND TREAT HEADACHES (migraine)

Preventing and treating headaches (migraine)

How ill If There's Disease in the Human Body. How ill, if you have migraine disease. Activity we would be distracted and uncomfortable. If we suffer from this disease, really how ill. Migraine or frequent headaches or also called a headache is a throbbing headache often accompanied by nausea, vomiting. Patients are usually sensitive to light, sounds and even smells. Headache is most often only on one side of the head alone, sometimes moving to the other side, but can on both sides of the head at once.

Migraines are sometimes rather difficult to distinguish from other types of headaches. Headaches due to sinus problems or neck muscle tension due to have symptoms similar to migraine symptoms. Migraine can occur with other illnesses such as asthma and depression. A very serious disease, such as tumor or infection, can also cause symptoms similar to migraine. But this incident is very rare.

Migraine is divided into two broad categories, namely:

• Common migraine (migraine without aura): Most people with migraine get into this type. Migraines are usually marked by throbbing head pain on one side with moderate to severe intensity and worsened during activity. Migraines are also accompanied by nausea, vomiting, sensitivity to light, sound, and smell. Headache will be cured within 4 to 72 hours, even if not treated.

• Classic migraine (migraine with aura): In the classic type, migraine is usually preceded by a symptom called an aura, which occurs in 30 minutes before a migraine arises. Classical migraine is 30% of all migraines.

Causes of Migraine

The exact cause of migraines is not so clear. It is estimated, hyperactivity of the brain's electrical impulses increase blood flow in the brain, resulting in brain blood vessel dilation and inflammation. This dilation and inflammation causing pain and other symptoms, such as nausea. More severe inflammation that occurs, the more severe migraine also suffered. It is known that genetic factors contribute to the onset of migraine.

Symptoms of Migraine

Early Symptoms: One or two days before a migraine arises, patients usually experience early symptoms such as weakness, excessive yawning, really wants a particular type of food (eg chocolate), irritable, and restless.

Aura: Only found in classic migraine. Usually occurs within 30 minutes before the onset of migraine. Can be shaped aura visual disturbances like seeing wavy lines, bright lights, dark spots, or can not see objects clearly. Other aura symptoms are tingling or tingling in the hand. Some patients can not pronounce the words well, feeling numbness in hands, shoulders, or face, or feel weak on one side of his body, or feeling confused. Patients may experience only one symptom alone or several kinds of symptoms, but these symptoms do not occur simultaneously but alternately. An aura symptoms usually disappear when the head pain or other symptoms arise aura. But sometimes the aura symptoms persisted at the beginning of a headache.

Headache and accompanying symptoms: The patient felt a throbbing pain on one side of the head, often felt in the back of the eye. Pain may move to the other side in the next attacks, or on both sides. The pain ranges from moderate to severe. Other symptoms that often accompany the headache include:

• Excessive sensitivity to light, sounds, and smells
• Nausea and vomiting
• Symptoms of more severe if the physical activity

Without treatment, the headache usually resolves itself within 4 to 72 hours.

Late symptoms: headache Once cured, the patient may feel pain in muscles, weakness, or even feel the excitement of the brief. These symptoms disappear within 24 hours after the disappearance of headaches.

Causes of Migraine

Migraines can be triggered by foods, stress, and changes in daily routine activity, although it is unclear how and why it can cause migraines. Migraine triggers include:

* Consumption of certain foods, like chocolate, MSG, and coffee
* Sleeping too much or lack of sleep
* Do not eat
* Changes in weather or air pressure
* Stress or emotional distress
* The smell was terrible or cigarette smoke
* A very bright light or reflected sunlight.

Around the world, migraines about 25% female and 10% of men. Women are two to three times more often affected by migraine than men. Migraine is most common on adults (aged between 20 to 5o years), but with age, severity and frequency decreased. Migraines are usually a lot of teenagers. In fact, children can experience migraine, either with or without aura. Greater risk of experiencing migraine in people who have a family history of migraine sufferers.

How to treat migraine

In the early stages, you can use antinyeri that can be purchased freely without prescription, such as paracetamol, or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as aspirin, ibuprofen, or naproxen sodium, to reduce the symptoms of migraine. Doctors usually recommend to first use NSAIDs to see if the drug is able to reduce pain before delivering anti-migraine drugs of other classes that must be purchased with a prescription, which has many side effects.

You can also try to reduce the frequency of migraines by recognizing and avoiding triggers that can cause migraines.

If you suffer migraines are mild to moderate, you just need antinyeri-counter to relieve symptoms. If you are moderate to severe migraine, you need antimigrain purchased with a prescription. If you are experiencing frequent migraine attacks, your doctor may recommend taking drugs to prevent migraines.

Some drugs to prevent migraines can cause mild to severe side effects in some patients. Patients who have heart problems or high blood pressure uncontrolled should not take this medicine. Patients older than 65 years, migraine preventive medication is not recommended.

Usually you need to try several drugs before you find one that best fits you. If you experience nausea or vomiting as a side effect of treatment antimigrain, your doctor also usually prescribe anti-nausea drugs like prochlorperazine or metoclopramide vomiting, to reduce the symptoms.

Although drugs are usually the primary treatment of migraine, complementary therapies can usually help to reduce symptoms and frequency of migraine attacks. Complementary therapies include:

* Acupuncture, ie with a very fine needle into the skin at specific points to cause the flow of energy throughout the body. This action may help muscle relaxation and reduce headache pain.
* Relaxation techniques, which can help reduce stress in everyday life.

If migraine does not recover even after treatment, need to change the type of drug. If you have not healed well, additional tests such as MRI or CT scan should be done to rule out other causes