What is Migraine?
What is Migraine?
Migraine is the 3rd most common disease in the world. Mostly the young are victims of this illness, It’s found in 7% of males and 24% of women. It’s a neurological illness, with throbbing pain or pulsing sensation usually on one side of the head or both it’s different than a common headache because it’s with several episodes. It is often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, and extreme sensitivity to light and sound. Migraine attacks last for hours to days, the pain severe that it interferes with your daily activities.
Causes of Migraine:
The cause of migraine is unknown, but according to the neurologist, it can be the result of abnormal brain activity temporarily affecting nerve signals, chemicals, and blood vessels in the brain.
Migraine Types:
There are two types of migraine
1. Migraine with Aura:
A migraine aura is usually visual but can also be a sensory, motor, or verbal disturbance. The disturbance can include flashes of light, blind spots, and other vision changing or tingling in your face or hands.
2. Migraine without Aura:
Migraine without Aura is related to nausea, vomiting, or both accompanied by sensitivity to light sound and movement. If it’s untreated these headaches can last up to 72 hours. In a child, the duration of head pain is open less than four hours, which is shorter than is typical for an adult migraine.
Silent Migraine (painless):
Silent migraine is without headache with blurry vision, light sensitivity, vision loss, seeing zigzags, numbness, tingling, weakness, confusion, difficulty in speaking, dizziness, diarrhea vomiting, and abdominal pain.
Silent occurs when you have aura symptoms without a headache. They last for a few minutes up to an hour
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Pre Migraine Symptoms:
One or two days before a migraine you might notice these changes which warn you the migraine is going to attack.
Constipation, Mood changing, Food cravings, Neck stiffness, Increased thirst and urination, Frequent yawning.
During Migraine:
the pain is usually on one side of your head and also can on be both sides, Pain that throbs of pulses, sensitivity to light, sound, and something smelled and touched. You can also be so sensitive.
Things to do during migraine:
Set in the quiet and darkroom, dim the light, massage your temples, relax, try a cold pack or use a heating pad. Place the compress across your forehead or the back of your neck.
Migraine triggers:
Emotional triggers:
stress, anxiety, tension, shock, depression, excitement.
Physical triggers:
Tiredness, poor quality of sleep, shift work, or shoulder tension.
Environmental Triggers:
Bright lights, smoking or sitting in a smoky room, strong smells, a stuffy atmosphere, loud noises, and a flickering screen such as a television or computer screen.
Food triggers:
There are some food triggers that actuates migraines. Everyone’s triggers are different from others; you have to recognize your trigger by yourself. But the most common triggers are alcohol, chocolate, coffee, onion tomato, and egg.
Treatments for Migraine:
Migraine is a neurological disease with neurological symptoms. You have to be in touch with a neurologist to treat the migraine.
By Lucky Rehmat