It is very difficult to cope with migraine, which is a neurological disease that we describe as intolerable headaches. Migraine pain, which starts from time to time, can be unbearable for patients. At this point, in order to cope with migraine, it is necessary to pay attention to the seasonal transitions. Neurology Specialist from Batıgöz Health Group, Dr. Nurettin Varolgüneş gave information about migraine. If you have migraine, you can check the rest of the news for all the details you need to know about migraine! Here’s what you need to know about migraine…
Headache is a general description, and the International Headache Society has classified headaches into 14 main clusters and hundreds of sub-clusters. Primary headaches are those that are not related to another disease and present directly with headaches, and migraine is included in this cluster.
If the pain is always and gradually increasing in nature, if the age of the person who has experienced the pain for the first time is below 10 or over 50, if the severity and form of the previously existing pain has changed, if it does not respond to treatment, if the headache has never been in his life until now. If it is the most severe pain one has faced and the pain has occurred during a physical activity (lifting a heavy load, sexual intercourse) and has increased its severity, it is absolutely necessary to go to the doctor.
Approximately 60 percent of migraine headaches occur on one side of the head and are often accompanied by throbbing. It is accompanied by nausea and occasional vomiting. This pain progresses in attacks and can continue in the middle of 4-72 hours. Blurred vision, discomfort from light and sound are seen. Physical activity and head movements trigger these attacks.
Migraine headache is considered to be a genetically inherited disease, but the genes responsible here have not been identified yet. Environmental factors such as tension, air pollution, depression, insomnia, nutritional disorders, frequent and close use of screens emitting very bright and flickering light can also trigger migraine.
Fragrance Smell Triggers Migraine!
Altitude changes, air pollution, cigarette smoke, very bright light or flickering light, loud and continuous noise, perfume odor, strong odors and chemical issues, changes in weather conditions (pressure, temperature and humidity change, southwesterly) , seasonal changes (autumn and spring are the months when attacks are more frequent), prolonged hunger, more or less harmony, sleep disorders, air travel, birth control pills, menstrual period, some foods and beverages (chocolate, nuts, fermented beverages such as wine) ); triggers migraine. It is possible to extend the food list further, but the food that increases migraine pain may be different for each patient.
“What is valuable is that the person finds and discovers the food that triggers the pain himself,” said Varolgüneş and said, “Before concluding that valuable foods in our diet trigger migraine, these foods should be tried by the person to be sure.”
More prominent in women!
Due to their nature, women are affected by environmental factors more quickly and more, which increases the risk. Migraine attacks become rare in menopausal women. Although migraine attacks decrease in the middle of the 3rd and 9th months of pregnancy, sometimes there may be an increase in migraine attacks in some pregnant women.
How to Treat Migraine?
The aim of treatment is to reduce pain triggering factors, to suppress the sensitivity in the border system and the events around the vein and vein that occur during pain. The basic treatment is divided into two as preventive and acute attack treatment. If the patient’s pain is seen once or twice a month, only acute attack treatment is recommended. In the treatment of acute pain attacks, easy painkillers, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, drugs with ergotamine and triptans are used. If painkillers and ergotamine drugs are used frequently, they always cause pain and sometimes they can cause more serious side effects.
Anti-emetic cluster anti-nausea drugs are given for nausea and vomiting during the attack. Painkillers should be taken at the beginning of the attack. In order to accelerate the absorption, the anti-nausea drug should be taken before the painkiller. “If the number of attacks exceeds three or four in a month, then it is necessary to use drugs not only during the attack, but also to prevent migraine attacks,” said Varolgüneş, “If the person has a migraine attack less than 2-3 attacks per month, preventive treatment may not be needed. Considering the person’s social life and job, sparing treatment can be given at the request of the patient, regardless of the number of attacks. In preventive therapy, drugs are taken every day. For this purpose, heart drugs, depression drugs, epilepsy drugs are used. It is inconvenient to take painkillers every day,” he said.
Botox in migraine, acupuncture, tissue massage in chronic pain, Riboflavin, magnesium and some herbal medicines are used as alternative treatments and are beneficial for some patients.
