Archive for the ‘Headache and Migraine’ Category

PostHeaderIcon 30% of Migraine Sufferers Have Not Been to a Specialist

European day of action against migraine.

Despite that, and those who know have had this disease-preventing neurological have a welfare right to carry out normal a family activity, social and labor, according to data handled by the Spanish Society of Neurology, 30.% Of migraineurs who suffer these attacks never failed to consult your problem with a specialist in the field.

What is also striking is that this disease as damaging to the health of the sufferer is that 50% have not gone to a neurologist for treatment.

In Spain, this disease is also causing a significant cost to Social Security. Year, according to this, migraines cost the public purse as much as 1.5 million euros and not only for the cost of medicines, but by the low people with these very intense headaches and low productivity of these patients who come to his job despite having migraines.

This neurological disease, against which about 10% of those who suffer follow a preventive treatment in Europe affects 12% of males and 16% of women.

In Spain, the suffering of 3.5 to 5 million Spanish, according to data it has collected Yusta Dr. Antonio Izquierdo, a neurologist at USP Hospital San Camilo.

Among the causes of this disease include hormonal changes, changes in sleep, stress, eating certain foods and beverages as well as travel.

Dr. Yusta warns that abuse of pain medications can make headaches go from sporadic to chronic. Among those most at risk are those containing codeine, caffeine or other opiates.

PostHeaderIcon Cider Vinegar for Headache

With the weather changes, problems, etc… Is easy to feel headaches.
These pains are usually not anything important but are very annoying and sometimes do not impede the tasks of everyday life.
To combat this annoying headache without falling in the consumption of pharmaceutical chemicals that only dirty our metabolism, we propose a fast and easy home remedy that will take away the headache in a heartbeat.
This is soak a p year aplicártelo cider vinegar and above the forehead and leave for 20 minutes
The properties of cider vinegar almost immediately relieve headaches allowing you to continue your life without hassle!

PostHeaderIcon How to Get Rid of a Headache

The goal of treatment is to reduce the frequency, severity and duration of a migraine patient. The choice of a preventive strategy or a pain-relieving strategy depends on the frequency and severity of headaches, the degree of disability the headaches cause and other medical conditions.

OTC medications are headache often effective relievers. try acetaminophen (Tylenol), aspirin or ibuprofen (Advil or Motrin) for tension headaches. Migraine headaches may respond to aspirin, naproxen (Aleve), or combination of drugs such as Excedrin Migraine. prescription drugs used for migraine headaches include ergotamine, dihydroergotamine, ergotamine with caffeine (Cafergot), isometheptene (Midrin), and triptans like sumatriptan (Imitrex), rizatriptan (Maxalt), almotriptan (Axert), andzolmitriptan (Zomig). Sometimes medications to relieve nausea and vomiting are helpful for other migraine symptoms.

Prevention includes taking prescribed medications, avoid or minimize the causes, and learning self-help measures, such as biofeedback or relaxation exercises. If your doctor suggests medication, you should realize that it may take several weeks to be effective and can have side effects. Therefore, you must be patient and work with your doctor to determine the optimal treatment.

Treatment may be as simple as avoiding the headache caused or may require biofeedback, psychological counseling and programs for behavior modification, in addition to drug therapy. Often improve sleep therapy is needed as a common sleep disorder is migraine.