Causes and Treatment of Migraine

The main thing that should be understood by anyone who deals with this disease is that migraine is not a kind of headache. This is a whole process that is paroxysmal and manifests itself during the periods of the organism's reorganization: in adolescence and childhood, during pregnancy, menopause or in crisis periods, when new methods of regulation are required. Strangely enough, this process is physiologically necessary, and below it will be considered why.

Symptomatology and the origin of

The causes of migraine are conventionally divided into two groups: why and for what.

Usually the attack begins with a so-called aura - flickering of light strokes and spots before the eyes, deformation of the visual field. Tactile and olfactory discomfort sensations, change of the digestive tract, are possible. The classic scenario for the development of the attack is a prolonged increase in headache, fever, dizziness, with a gradual improvement in the state of health around the end of the day, slight residual discomfort and a sense of purification, but there is also a rapid flow with a sharp exit from the painful state through the reaction of the precipice: vomiting, diarrhea, sweating, loss of consciousness.

It is known that women are mainly affected by migraine - this is due to the peculiarities of female physiology with its cyclicity, propensity to paroxysmal response and functions of the pituitary and hypothalamus. Therefore, most migraine attacks in women usually occur before menstruation.

Migraine can also occur after the appearance of any provoking factor: weather change, delays in defecation, eating some foods, and lack of sleep. Consequently, we can talk about the manifestation of the inadequacy of everyday, habitual methods of regulation.

Here migraine is considered as an extreme mode of regulation, to which the human body resorts, and acts as a consequence of certain factors.

The second reason why a migraine occurs is a defensive reaction of the psyche. The manifestation of symptoms here expresses physically the man's desire to shield himself from stresses and external stimuli. For example, a family migraine, inherited mostly psychologically, is imitative, adaptive in nature.

In both overweight sex workers, regular attacks of clustered cephalalgia, also called migraines, are noted in the morning on the day off, which also largely supports the psychological origin of the ailment.

In this case, migraine acts as a reason for self-isolation, unwillingness to get involved in any actions.

Diagnosis, prevention and treatment of

It is important to exclude oncological causes of the patient having regular headaches. Sometimes, additional follow-up is required in the form of CT, EEG or MRI.But, as a rule, with migraine, there are no serious changes in the structure of the brain.

It is necessary to know what preparations the patient is taking. Sometimes the addiction to certain medications causes the same shake necessary for the body in order to find more effective means.

But one way or another, we need to look for the root of the problem, the mechanisms for launching seizures, in order for this reaction to be increasingly used by the regulatory system. Despite the fact that migraine is now considered an incurable disease, it is possible to reduce the frequency of seizures. Help can come from psychotherapy, manual therapy, drugs from the group of beta-blockers, antidepressants, changing eating habits, for example, excluding coffee, chocolate, alcohol, smoked products, nuts, bananas, canned food. In some cases, it may be necessary to change the climate, environment and profession.

The attack should be stopped at the very beginning, with medicines and methods of physiotherapy, to ensure complete peace and quiet, to try to fall asleep. Of medicines, aspirin, ibuprofen, citramone, diclofenac, indomethacin, tempalgine, spasmalgon, novigan, migrenol, nomigren, pentalgin, ascofen have proved to be effective;Triptans, including in the form of a spray( tryptans are contraindicated in the anti-phospholipid syndrome, cardiovascular pathologies and myocardial infarction transferred).Supplement therapy can be antiemetics( motilium plus metoclopramide preparations).But medicines containing codeine, it is not recommended to take it, so that the headache does not become a constant companion. Do not take the above drugs more than twice a week. About contraindications to the use of children, pregnant and lactating, you need to know the doctor.

In any case, the tactics of treating migraines are highly individual and most often selected by the person by the method of samples.