Migraine is a rather unpleasant disease, characterized by a strong, often one-sided, pain in the temples. Usually migraine is accompanied by various vegetative disorders inside the body. There is nausea, vomiting, photophobia and intolerance to noise.
Migraine attacks are preceded by the so-called "aura period". A man begins to pursue a smell, glittering dots, lightning or spots flash before your eyes. There comes a weak motor paralysis or numbness of individual parts of the body. Own voice begins to sound like a tape recorder pulling a film. This state lasts from fifteen minutes to half an hour, then the "hammers" hitting the temples enter the battle.
Where does the migraine come from?
It is proved that the villagers suffer from migraines tens of times less often than the townspeople. A strong headache is largely provoked by internal conflicts of a psychological nature, and the megacity is the most fertile soil for stress. Migraine risk factors consider emotional instability, a tendency to permanent depression, diabetes mellitus, smoking and the intake (even for the purpose of contraception) of significant doses of estrogens. Women, according to statistics, suffer from recurring migraines three times more often than men.
The heredity along the mother's line also has significance. If the attacks of unbearable migraine occur in both parents, the child has only one chance out of ten to get around this problem. Lead to the attack can be a long stay in a smoke-filled and stuffy room, a sharp change of weather, the arrival of menstruation in women, severe dehydration, a disturbed diet. Migraine provokers - certain strong odors, some foods and drinks. Everyone has it all individually enough.
Treatment of migraine
It is best to extinguish the attack in the very bud, when there is still no severe headache, but her harbingers are visible. Usually it is irritability or tearfulness, unbearable thirst, desire to urgently eat something unusual, general drowsiness. In this period, you can try to fall asleep immediately. During sleep, even a strong migraine passes, not having time to accelerate.
Many help pain relievers in general, if you have time to take them before the development of pain. Combined drugs are recognized as the most effective in the treatment of migraine, as an inexpensive caffetin. The components of this remedy (paracetamol, codeine, caffeine and propyphenazone) perfectly complement and strengthen the analgesic effect of each other, quickly eliminating discomfort and relieving migraine in the temples.
Caffeine relaxes the walls of the vessels of the brain, helping to relieve the attack. The dose of the components is low, which means that there are no side effects either. Kaffetin is taken even behind the wheel, as the drug does not cause drowsiness.
Special preparations are developed directly against migraine. They are in the form of pills and candles and are good for the already begun attack. If vomiting occurs, it is better to use special candles. But such potent medicines have their drawbacks: they are expensive, they only give effect with migraines of some species, they are contraindicated to hypertensive patients and people with ischemic disease.
Unfortunately, any treatment measures only relieve pain or break off the development of an attack. For the same reason that migraine tormented as rarely as possible, experts advise to lead a correct way of life, whenever possible to alternate loads with rest, more to walk on fresh air.
To keep under control the headaches will also help acupuncture, yoga or homeopathic preparations. To cure even a strong migraine, they sometimes are more effective than drugs. It is necessary to remember only that any treatment should be conducted in a complex and strictly individual manner.
You can never neglect a campaign to a neurologist. He will help to appoint effective and competent treatment of migraine. After all, the causes of the disease can be a serious violation of the body, causing severe pain in the head. In this case, treatment should begin with the elimination of these diseases.