Migraine
Definition of Migraine
Migraine headache is a chronic condition that causes significant pain for many hours the material for days. Some migraines are preceded or concurrently with sensory symptoms or warning signs, such as rays or tingling in the arms or legs. Migraines are often accompanied by nausea, vomiting and a feeling of extreme sensitivity to light and sound.
Symptoms of Migraine
Although there is no cure, medical treatment can help reduce the frequency and severity of migraines. If the treatment does not work for you in the past, it's better to talk to your doctor to try another medical treatment. The right medication combined with self-awareness and lifestyle changes can make a tremendous change.
Migraine is always started when the children, adolescence and early adulthood. Migraine attacks typically produce some or all of the following signs and symptoms:
• moderate to severe pain, which is limited to one side of the head or may have an effect on the two sides
• Headache is throbbing
• a severe headache when doing physical activity
• The pain affects your routine activities
• Nausea with or without vomiting
• Sensitive to light and sound
When left untreated, the migraine attack usually between 4 to 72 hours, but the frequency with which headaches occur differ between each person. You may have a frequency of migraines several times a month or less.
Not all migraine same. Many people experience migraines without aura, which is usually called common migraines. Some people experience migraine with aura, the so-called classic migraines. Aura may consist of changes in vision, like when I saw rays, and stabbing feeling in arms or legs.
Presence or absence of aura, you may have one or more foreboding sensation (prodrome) several hours or days or until you run into the attack, including:
• Feeling happy or more energy
• crave the sweet taste
• Thirst
• Drowsiness
• Irritability
Prevention of Migraine
Lifestyle changes can provide an advantage in helping reduce the frequency and severity of migraines. One or more of these clues may help you on how to prevent migraine:
• Avoid triggers. If certain foods seem to trigger your headaches in the past, avoid these foods. Apply your daily rutinintas with regular sleep patterns and regular eating patterns.
• Exercise regularly. Regular aerobic exercise reduces tension and can help prevent migraines. If your doctor agrees, choose aerobic exercise that makes you comfortable, like walking, swimming and cycling. Warm up slowly, however, because sudden, intense exercise can cause headaches. Obesity is also thought to be a factor of migraine, and exercise can help you teratut reduces weight.
• Decreased estrogen. If you are a woman with migraines and estrogen seems to trigger or make your headaches worse, you may want to avoid or reduce the use of medical drugs that contain estrogen. Medical drugs, including the birth control pills and hormone therapy. Ask your doctor about alternative or the best dose for you.
