How Do I Care About Headaches?
Written by:Suffering from headache? It could be migraine! The Dr. Giorgio Dalla Volta, an expert in Neurology in Brescia , talks about how he cures the headache
Headache, headache and migraine
" Headache " is the scientific term to define headache; "Migraine" already indicates a diagnosis.
Of the 70 existing types of headache, some of which are secondary to other diseases (eg, stroke, encephalitis, wounds, carbon monoxide poisoning, viral infections, etc.) and other primary (whose cause is not due to another disease), migraine is the one most commonly encountered during visits from the Neurologist.
Migraine has its own specificity, hence its very familiar familiarity. The patient may start to suffer at any age, even at 5 years, and then develops over the course of life, with the tendency to become more and more frequent.
Other forms of primary headaches are, for example, cluster headaches, tensile headache and other rarer forms.
Headaches: When to Go From Neurologist?
It is necessary to contact a Neurologist when the headache is "different from the usual":
- The headache becomes chronic, the pain becomes daily;
- Change the type of pain;
- The migraine becomes unmanageable , so it is no longer controllable through the intake of analgesics;
- The headache becomes more frequent and you have more than 2-3 crises per month.
Addressing a Headache Center or a Neurologist can prevent chronic disease and abuse and self-administration of analgesic drugs that may be contraindicated for other illnesses that the patient suffers or for other drugs that the patient He assumes.
Migraine: how do you care?
When migraine exceeds 3-4 crises per month, it has to be tackled with preventative care: there are drugs that help cure the disease, stabilizing brain neurons, and hence the alteration leading to migraine and its chronicity.
Very often, migraine also has comorbidities of anxiety depressive disturbances: in addition to the headache prevention medication, the patient may also receive medications against depressed anxiety disorder , which help to cure the deflection of 'mood. Often the patient with migraine also complains of cervical tension, which is nothing other than an anxiety somatization.
What is the headache?
The headache is a complex phenomenon that may occur with the disappearance of the visual field or the feeling of being dazzled by an important light source. The patient then reports that for 20-30 minutes he can not see again.
Visual problems can be followed by a tingling that rises from the boom to the mouth, or even from speech disturbances. Ques you are critical neurological phenomena, which can precede what is the migraine crisis .
When one of these things happens, the patient is very concerned, as there seems to be an acute cerebrovascular event such as stroke or seizure.
The supplements against migraine
There is an important novelty for patients suffering from chronic migraine: a new dietary supplement (in the image), 5-hydroxytryptophan and magnesium, which can be taken when the patient complains about the phenomenon of 'aura. This integrator immediately reduces the intensity, disability and duration of the aura and prevents the onset of headaches.
To date, the aura was concerned with specific drugs or analgesics at the time when pain came. Now, however, we can prevent the disorders, which can last for up to 24 hours and lead to asthenia and confusion.
Migraine: what are the examinations to be performed?
Those suffering from aural headaches are right to perform a magnetic resonance imaging , a thermography, to check the actual presence of migraine, and a transcranial doppler to exclude the perennial oval forearm that very often (up to 65% of cases) is present in patients who have the aura.
Editor Karin Moscow