What is a migraine?

Approximately 23.6 million Americans have suffered from migraines. Severe headaches have a significant influence in the United States, both for the individual suffering from them and on society as a whole. Considering only the cost of labor and lost productivity costs of migraine in the United States about $ 13000000000 a year. This is the equivalent of 112 million "bed-ridden days" per year. Migraines have also shown that the negative effects of aLives of individuals as arthritis, hypertension or diabetes.

Migraines are headaches, either unilaterally or on both sides, and are recurrent. Often the patient can "predict" the headache before it starts. Nausea, vomiting and hypersensitivity to sensory stimuli, including light and sound to accompany the rule. Migraines are often unable to act. Pain medications aspirin and other rarely help.

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The current theory is that migraine caused by aStopping the flow of blood to the head, especially in the back, which then begin an inflammatory response. Common migraine triggers are stress, excessive sleep, menstruation, pregnancy, pills, antihistamines or diuretics, or induce a variety of foods, including red wine, aged cheeses, MSG, and chocolate.

What is a migraine?

Migraine without aura accounts, headache or joint pain, 80% of all headaches. There is a "prodrome" or visual disturbancesheadaches. They usually last 4 to 72 hours and are associated with nausea, vomiting and sensitivity to light and noise. Common headaches are aggravated by physical activity, but usually are not disabling. These headaches may be unilateral or bilateral, and are more common in women.

Classical migraine or migraine with aura, is surrounded by a more and more blinded by flashing lights about 30 minutes before the onset of headaches in advance. ThisMigraine lasts a few hours to 1-3 days, and are a little 'raised by a dark and silent. They are unilateral and throbbing, and there are often accompanied by nausea and vomiting. There is usually a family history of these headaches.

If the prodrome or more prominent than the headache lasts, is known as complicated migraine. There are three types of migraine complicated:

opthalmoplegic what caused the double vision and eye pain; hemiplegia, whereSide of the body is paralyzed, often for days, and basilar artery, causing dizziness, difficulty swallowing, double vision, difficulty hearing and ringing in the ears leads. There are also subsets of classical and common migraine, including:

Retina that produce a model of "puzzle" of visual noise that expands and goes; coital, usually brought on men and on changes in blood flow from sexual intercourse and orgasm, and Rebound, which is caused byexcessive use of drugs for migraines (more than two days a week) to be treated. There are many conservative therapies for migraine. First, patients with migraine, the focus on what can be activated to pay and avoid those triggers. Migraines often respond chiropractic manipulation. Other options are conservative biofeedback and acupuncture. Dietary supplements has also been shown to reduce the frequency of migraines. Feverfew,5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP), omega-3 fatty acids (fish oil), magnesium, calcium, riboflavin and vitamin D have all been shown to help headaches. Deep tissue massage and trigger point therapy to relax the muscles at the back of the head, which may be involved, and ice packs on the back of the head narrows blood vessels and reduce the inflammatory response.

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What is a migraine?

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