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The migraines are often very impressive for someone who suffered and those around him. The symptoms are sometimes very violent, preventing any activity. So to bed that the patient is awaiting the end of its crisis.

Sometimes the crisis is preceded by warning symptoms characteristics: the aura. It is most often visual signs, such as streaks of light, sparkle, “holes” in the visual field, but it can also be tingling or prickling (paresthesias) usually around the mouth, difficulties ‘speech, or more rarely paralysis. These symptoms disappear completely in less than an hour to give way to headaches.

Severe pain
migraine without aura occurs. It may however be announced in the previous 24 hours, by general signs such as tiredness, irritability and digestive problems. The headache settled, happy in the morning and gradually increases in intensity. It is severe, often with a throbbing sensation, shooting pain, burning or feeling of having his head in a vice. It may be unilateral or bilateral – that is to say one or both sides – and changing topography, from one crisis to another.

Characteristic sign, it is almost always exacerbated by violent efforts, even the most minimal. Nausea and vomiting are very common, as well as intolerance to noise and light. Other signs are often present as pallor, weakness, sensations of hot and cold, numbness or tingling.

The migraine headache difference to be characterized by the recurrent appearance of crisis whose duration varies from two seventy-two hours and where it manifests headaches in conjunction with hypersensitivity to sensory stimuli (light, noise) or digestive disorders, and affective manifestations, such as anxiety.

There are different types of migraine which mentioned below Migraine without aura, migraine with aura (typical, long, without headache or acute onset), ophthalmoplegic migraine, retinal migraine, transformed migraine (with or without analgesic overuse abuse them).

There are many causes that trigger the onset of migraine, which include both physical type situations as biological or psychological which are shown below:

* Alcohol intake
* Foods such as cocoa, dairy products, citrus, nuts, spices and preservatives and other
* The period or the use of birth control pills
* The prolonged insolation
* Altered sleep rhythms
* Stress
* Prolonged fasting
* Allergic reaction
* Bright lights, loud noises and certain smells of perfume
* Foods containing tyramine (red wine, aged cheese, smoked fish, chicken livers, figs and some beans) monosodium glutamate or nitrates (sausage, salami)

In the case of stress, it increases the presence of crisis, not only when it occurs, as for example the case of the student population exam period but its action is manifested by scheduling certain activities in advance, whether positive or negative, as a result of the fruit of their own anxiety or fear of such activity.

In relation to alcohol consumption, it is important that people do not confuse the migraine itself not caused by excessive alcohol consumption, which usually occurs within hours (usually two or three) of this simple headache produced by the hangover, which usually occurs after an interval of five to ten hours after alcohol abuse.

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It may be that everything you thought you knew about migraine headaches – except that is among the greatest non-serious ailments of humanity is wrong.

At least that’s what the researchers headache. Recent studies question the long-standing concepts.
There is sufficient evidence that almost all so-called sinus headaches are actually migraines.

Not surprisingly, the number of remedies against them that are in the market and the endless prescriptions for antibiotics have produced so little relief for the millions of sick sinus course.

The good news is that there are drugs that can prevent migraine attacks in those affected or suspend frequent headaches.

Migraine therapy has come a long way in two decades and it is recommended that those who know or suspect they have migraine, see a neurologist or headache specialist to obtain an accurate diagnosis and improved treatment.

The World Health Organization (WHO) ranks migraine among the most disabling diseases. A migraine is more than a headache. The stabbing pain of a migraine, which usually appears on one side of the head, often accompanied by nausea, vomiting and extreme sensitivity to light and sound. You feel completely sick.

Symptoms may include nasal congestion, blurred vision, diarrhea, abdominal cramps, abnormal sensation of heat or cold, anxiety, depression, irritability and inability to concentrate.

Without effective treatment, those most severely attacked can not be repaired or with the simplest tasks and must lie down until the attack happens. After you often feel tired, irritable, listless or depressed, although there are those who feel unusually fresh and energetic.

About 4% of children have migraine pubescent. After puberty, the incidence climbs to 6% among men and 18% among women and gradually declines after age 40.

The higher rate among women is related to fluctuating levels of estrogen in the blood, the drop in estrogen just before menstruation triggers menstrual migraines tend to be more severe and longer lasting than other forms.

Although long believed they were mostly vascular headaches, the results of the expansion and constriction of blood vessels in the head, is now considered that migraines come from neural changes in the brain and the release of neuroinflammatory peptides that in turn shrink the blood vessels.

The headache often begins before these vessels dilate. The inflammatory peptides sensitize nerve fibers that then respond aa innocuous stimuli, like the pulse of blood vessels, causing pain of migraine.

In some people, the headache is preceded by an aura of visual symptoms, sensory or motor, which lasts less than an hour.

These include the sight of flashing lights, numbness in hands, dizziness or inability to speak. People who experience these have a doubled risk of cardiovascular disease. Migraines sometimes run in families, and ways to give families were traced to a mutation in two genes.

Although it is difficult to confuse with its classic form, a migraine can be classified as a headache caused by a sinus or tension, probably because it can cause nasal congestion, pressure or pain in the forehead or below the eye and discomfort on both sides face.

In an Arizona study by Dr. Eric Eross, 90% of people with headaches caused by self-diagnosed sinusitis, migraine actually had. The most common causes include stress, climate change, declining estrogen, fatigue and sleep disorders as well as excessive use of OTC pain relievers.

To determine what might trigger headaches, records each event on your calendar, noting the foods you ate or the circumstances preceding each one. If you are a woman and those of childbearing age, notes the stages of your menstrual cycle.

If necessary, to discover the foods that may have to do with your headaches, try an elimination diet, cutting sharply different foods and then reintroducing them one by tao vez.Tan what treatments and ways of prevention are numerous.

If one does not work, try another. Among the more effective as preventive mediamentos are tricyclic antidepressants, beta blockers like propranolol and antiepileptic drugs as gabapentin.A helps some relaxation therapy, biofeedback or stress management.

Perhaps most important to find relief is to consult a doctor with experience in diagnosing and treating migraines. Too many people try to cope alone to move forward, sometimes causing more frequent migraines by abusing medication prescribed order. Read the rest of this entry »

Sexual activity has been known to both trigger a headache as to relieve migraine pain, depending on their effect on each person, or more specifically the type of headache or headache you have. We have all heard of (and perhaps some of us have used) the old excuse of “Not tonight dear, I have a headache.
But beware! The next time you feel it coming a migraine attack, sex can be the best remedy.

There are two schools of thought and research on this issue: One holds that sex, especially orgasm, can relieve pain caused by migraine, and the other holds that sex can actually enhance the headache. You have to do your own experiments to see whether sex has any effect on their migraine, although it is known that in reality the difference is given by the type of headache. The common headache or tension-type headache can be exacerbated by sex, however the headache a migraine originated corresponds to a vascular headache and sexual activity can decompress the extracranial arteries, causing the migraine pain, relieved. Read the rest of this entry »

The main culprits

Migraine is caused by a malfunction of the vascular and nervous systems. And certainly, the disease is a family affair. Here’s what we know because of migraine. In other words, little things. More is known about the events that trigger the crisis, once installed migraine.

To tame the migraine, and better still prevent, it is essential to know the risk situations of crisis, which awaken the disease. Many factors can trigger it, that patients are not always aware: Lack of sleep, alcohol, rules, stress, chocolate

Psychological factors

they are psychological problems: a contradiction, emotion, anxiety, stress, triggering the crisis. This also maintains the reputation of migraine, erroneously labeled “mental illness” in the public mind. Especially since it has the peculiarity to occur at well defined in some people, always the weekend for example, which spoils the rest and recreation for the whole family. Read the rest of this entry »

Other symptoms associated with migraine include:

* Stomach upset, abdominal pain
* Loss of appetite
* Feeling very hot or cold
* Pallor
* Fatigue
* Dizziness
* Visual disturbances
* Diarrhea
* Fever (rare)

Vitamin B2 is probably a good alternative for people with migraine problems. Daily intake of high doses of vitamin B2 might help prevent the attacks.

Additional benefits of vitamin B2 over other migraine treatments is that it is very cheap, hardly a positive contribution and side effects. Vitamin B2 plays a role in energy metabolism of body cells. It helps the mitochondria provide energy. When a power failure, a reaction can occur which leads to a migraine attack.

In a study of migraine, patients showed that a daily dose of 400 mg vitamin B2 three months after the migraine frequency decreased by 37%. It had little effect on the symptoms themselves. The effect was seen after one months and was taking up after three months

It appeared that a vitamin B2 supplementation works best in people who had a moderate form of migraine with a few attacks per Month The effect of vitamin B2, according to a Belgian study similar to drugs such as beta-blockers but without adverse side effects. 53 migraine sufferers were given a high daily doses of vitamin B2, riboflavin, or a placebo tablet to swallow. In 56% of users ribovlavine there was improvement in the number, severity and duration of migraine attacks. 19% of the placebo group had benefited.

Daily use of 600 mg magnesium shows the occurrence of migraine attacks to be reduced.
Magnesium may well affect the fase constriction and the release and activity of serotonin.

This is the result of a well designed (double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized) study by Dr. A. Peikert the Department of Neurology and Clinical Neuropsychology at the Munich-health care

Seventy people have more than two years with migraine were members after a preparatory period of four weeks either a daily 600 mg magnesium (trimagnesiumdicitraat) or a placebo. After twelve weeks showed the number of migraine attacks in the group who received magnesium had steadily decreased to a total of 41.6%. In the placebo group, the reduction in the number of attacks, only 15.8%. The total number of days with migraine was in the magnesium group decreased by 49%, against 21% in the group who had received a placebo. But some complained (18.6%) of patients who had received magnesium on diarrhea, and 4.7% for stomach complaints.

The attacks in the magnesium group were lighter and less drug use.
Earlier studies have already indicated that migraine patients less magnesium in their bodies than others.

Migraine attacks usually have a unilateral headache, throbbing, moderate-severe intensity, often accompanied by nausea and vomiting, photo phobia and / or photo phobia. The attacks usually last less than 3 days and may be of such intensity that they interfere with personal and professional daily activities of those who suffer. In addition, migraine patients have to live with the uncertainty of when is your next attack and what intensity.

Cluster headaches affect one side of the head are the most widely recognized symptom of migraine, but not unique. Migraine can be accompanied by:

1. Aura

• Phase suffering a minority of patients with migraine. Symptoms include changes in vision, hearing, smell, taste and touch that last about an hour. Visual aura is the most common type of aura and may include flashing lights, bright zigzag lines that move the eyes or “heat waves” that traverse the field of view.

The goal of treatment for substance is effective in reducing the frequency and intensity of migraine attacks. It is proposed where the seizures are frequent (from three per month) and/or disabling (with a significant impact on activities by their intensity or duration). The drugs most used are dihydroergotamine, propranolol (beta blocker), methysergide, the Flunarizine, sodium valproate and amitryptilline (Tricyclic antidepressant, effective especially if there is a component associated with depressive illness). Note that these products have been created for indications other than migraine at baseline (anti-epileptic, antidepressant etc)
One can also cite the indoramine (alpha blocker) as background therapy specific.
The molecule chosen must be taken regularly for 3 months, keeping a calendar of self-monitoring, containing the crisis with quote their intensity and their duration, taken medication, potential side effects, especially the efficiency. If effective, treatment is still taken 6 months before being gradually stopped hoping for a remission more or less complete and lasting crisis.
Today some of these treatments are sometimes associated with certain classes of anti-epileptic drugs including anti-migraine is now demonstrated.