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Migraine treatment: list of medications for migraines and headaches

Migraine is a hereditary disease in which blood vessels of the brain characterized by high sensitivity and inflamed under the influence of adverse external and/or internal factors. Migraine attacks are accompanied by severe pain, photophobia and nausea. Permanent degenerative changes in the brain no, the expansion and inflammation of blood vessels occurs only during the attack, and then stops.

Migraine is not dangerous to health, moreover, people suffering from it longer retain clarity of mind and a good memory. But during the painful attacks about the positive aspects of the disease do not want to think. How to understand whether you have migraines or headaches are of a different nature?

Here's what you need to know about migraines:

  • Seizures usually have four stages: prodrome, aura, pain and directly postmortally period;
  • Prodrome is anxiety and foreboding of the attack, the aura is visual, tactile, olfactory and speech disorders before the attack, migraine pain is always very strong, throbbing and localized in a particular part of the head, and postmortally period is the feeling of weakness after an attack;
  • Sometimes there is migraine without aura, however, its absence does not obviate the diagnosis;
  • Severe migraines may be accompanied by vomiting, dizziness, double vision and blackouts and even paralysis of the limbs. Recurring abdominal pain and vomiting of unknown etiology in children can also be a manifestation of migraine.

Girls migraine first manifests itself at the age of 13-23 years, and is often associated with the arrival of the first birth. Young men suffer this disease much less frequently, and begin to suffer earlier 8-10 years, and to predict when the attacks will end is difficult. Migraine is diagnosed only in 6% of the male population. Among women suffer from one in five, but almost all the migraine recedes after menopause.

Completely cure migraine impossible as to explain its reasons or to prevent the development. But the disease can and should take control. Ideally, you should not happen more than two attacks per month, and they should not last more than two hours. For those who writhe in pain and run to the toilet for two or three days, these words seem an unattainable dream. But don't despair just yet. We will try to teach you to live without migraineruled you, and you her.

To get the migraines under control, you must:

  • To calculate the triggering factors and avoid them carefully;
  • To understand the variety of pain medications to find the right medication and the right to be taken to quickly relieve the pain;
  • To do everything possible to reduce the frequency of attacks.

Each of these three points we now analyze in detail.

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The attack begins: what to do?

Let's summarize our discussion of the treatment of migraine, gather together a whole Arsenal and make a clear plan of action in order not to lose any precious minutes when you again catch up with the attack.

So, if you had a headache:

  • Immediately go home, atrocities.
  • Take a warm shower, use aromatherapy oils that help you cope with the pain (lavender, patchouli, bergamot);

  • Make a Cup of sweet tea or coffee, dissolved in a glass 2 effervescent tablets of aspirin, eat something light, if long time did not eat, take the pill of Motylium, and if you feel sick, and Cerucal;
  • Close the room, draw the curtains, lie down under a blanket, relax and try to sleep;
  • If after 45-60 minutes the pain started to recede, use the temperature contrast: put on the forehead or under the neck cold wet towel, and lower legs in a basin of hot water. Ask someone close to give you a massage, or you can resort to point-massage diagrams which is easy to find online;
  • After 2 hours, if the pain is still not diminished, take triptan or combined analgesic with a soothing component;
  • If 2 hours after this attack has not stopped, started vomiting, no more pills, don't take – call an ambulance or make an injection of Baralgin/Ketorolac at home, if possible.

When to call an ambulance?

There are times when the ambulance needs to call necessarily. Although migraine – the disease is not dangerous in very rare cases it takes threatening forms and can lead to seriouscomplications. Carefully read the following list: even if you are used to cope with attacks on their own, some deviations from the usual script should force you to immediately grab hold of the telephone handset.

Call the ambulance if:

  • The attack lasts more than three days, that is, you have what's called "migraine status", the outcome of which, especially in adulthood, may be the stroke;
  • You have repeated vomiting, diarrhea and dehydration;

  • Migraine aura lasts more than 1 hour;
  • Violations of sight, speech, touch and smell persist throughout the attack, and not just precede it;
  • Before your migraines are never accompanied by aura, and now she suddenly arose;
  • You have a strong dizziness, darkening of the eyes, curvature of the outlines of objects, complete blindness, loss of consciousness, disorientation in space;
  • The course of migraine has changed dramatically, and for the last week you have already the second or third attack;
  • You are older than 55 years, have long had a migraine, and suddenly you have a severe headache, similar to migraine.

I hope today we were able to answer all your questions about migraines, to help find hope and suggest ways on how to get this insidious and enigmatic disease under control. Take care of yourself and be healthy!