Symptoms and Treatment of Migraine

1 Causes of

Migraine is commonly referred to as an attack of violent, pulsating headache, which affects only one half of it. In addition to severe attacks of headache, this disease is accompanied by a number of other, no less unpleasant symptoms.

Such pains often appear at a young age( from 17 to 30 years).

Basically, the cause of the onset of headache is hidden in some other pathology, and pain is only one of the symptoms of a secondary nature. If we talk about migraines, then in this case the pain is primary and directly related to the instability of the whole vascular tone.

Migraine can also be described in a different way, namely, damage to the arteries of the human brain, which are manifested by spasmodic stages, dilatation, edema of all available vessel walls, and periarterial tissues.

2 Methods of treatment

As mentioned above, it is almost impossible to completely get rid of migraines. If you believe the statistics, then only 10% of patients this disease disappears completely. They very badly endure this ailment, because severe headaches can deprive a person of work capacity and almost all life's joys. Sometimes this disease can dislodge a person for a long time, and it is for this reason that migraine requires special attention and treatment, whose main task is to relieve the attack, as well as to prevent further attacks.

Migraine should be treated with special medications, the list of which is even greater than the symptoms of the disease. Treatment of migraine directly depends on the severity of the disease, the frequency of seizures and their duration.

For the treatment of migraine, specialists constantly prescribe:

• some analgesics, mostly - aspirin and paracetamol;

• non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs;

• dihydroergotamines;

• triptans;

• various opioid analgesics, including: Nalbuphine, Codeine and some others;

• some antiemetics( these include Motilium, Cerucal and other medications).

Some experts believe that taking analgesics can be missed or not at all, but immediately begin treatment with triptans, which are intended solely for the treatment of migraine. Although the choice of medications is always individual and depends only on the rate of attack. If the headache develops very quickly, then preparations from migraine should have an accelerated onset of action, namely - up to 30 minutes. Such agents include sumatriptan, Almotriptan, rizatriptan and some others.

If the patient is taking Naratriptan, you need to know that this drug acts somewhat slower, about an hour after intake, but at the same time it much better reduces the likelihood of a repeat occurrence. In the event that the triptans do not give the desired result, then with them you need to take non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.

Specialists tend to argue that in order not to consume a large number of different medications, you can try to make a so-called acupressure, which can be carried out regardless of the attack. For this, a person needs to know only certain points, which on the human body are of the order of 20. Knowing all these points, one can exert a purposeful influence on them.

3 Non-medicamentous ways to get rid of migraine

These methods of treating migraines include:

1. Complete correction of the patient's lifestyle. Here you can include correct and balanced nutrition, compliance with sleep, refusal of alcohol and much more.

1. Various psychotherapeutic methods. Such methods include auto-training, various relaxing techniques and much more.

1. The so-called biological feedback.

1. Some physiotherapeutic effects on the human body.

1. Massage, self-massage. As for self-massage, it will easily help at the initial stage of an attack.

1. Acupuncture.

Of course, the maximum part of such activities should be taken only in the interim period to reduce the frequency of seizures. As for self-massage, relaxation, biological feedback, such methods are able to cope with only attacks of headaches.

In some cases, to reduce pain, it is customary to apply either a hot water bottle or an ice pack to a sore spot.

It should be remembered that this method can not help every patient.

4 Traditional medicine

Treatment of migraine with the help of traditional medicine is quite common. All methods of fighting this disease are divided into 2 main groups, namely:

1. Drugs that must be taken to stop the headache during an attack.
2. Drugs to be taken to prevent such an attack.

In order to slightly improve the patient's condition at the time of an attack, the following means can be used:

• a special compress made from the leaves of burdock or cabbage;

• small lemon slices or a bulb, cut in half, should be applied to the temples;

• moistened cotton swab with beet juice and put it in the auricle;

• inhale a mixture of camphor and ammonia. Remember that mixing these two spirits, you must observe a 1: 1 ratio;

• inhale a special mixture of water and apple cider vinegar in a 1: 1 ratio;

• inhale vapors of various aromatic oils;

• make special foot baths by adding mustard powder to the water;

• as soon as the attack begins to appear, you need to drink ¼ st.juice from raw potatoes;

• take a bath, adding a special decoction from the root of valerian.

All of the above methods are the most common in folk medicine in combating such an unpleasant disease as migraine. In fact, there are a lot of ways to fight this disease.

5 Recommendations

In order to prevent the occurrence of unpleasant seizures, traditional medicine recommends the following methods:

1. Daily use of a decoction of various herbal, fruit collections.

1. If the attack has already happened, it is necessary to prepare a special cocktail of 1 chicken egg and boiled milk. This cocktail should be taken from 5 to 7 days. In the people it is considered that such a tool can help and when the attack itself.

1. Every day, from the very morning it is necessary to drink 1 tbsp.serum.

1. Take three times a day for ¼ st.black currant juice or a mixture of carrot juice( 3 parts in total), spinach juice and dandelion juice( only 1 part each).

All available traditional methods of treating migraine are individual for each person, because they alone have a positive effect, while others can even worsen the general condition.

6 Treatment during pregnancy

Every pregnant woman who suffers from such an unpleasant ailment as a migraine, it is necessary to start fighting with the existing attack of pain by such methods:

1. To conduct a light massage of the entire head, as well as the collar zone. Massage should be done very gently, lightly touching the tips of your fingers.

1. Make cold compresses and apply them to the forehead and to the temples.

1. Drink a strong enough coffee or tea. At the same time, it should be sweet. Do not be intimidated by this, since caffeine in moderate dosage will not cause the fetus the slightest harm.

As for the use of various herbal infusions, their reception is possible only after consulting a specialist. The fact is that there are such herbs, which during pregnancy are categorically contraindicated to take.

If the pregnant woman decides to resort to traditional medicine, then with migraine, she can take only Paracetamol, since other drugs can harm a future baby.

Never self-medicate and be healthy!