Migraine with aura - very painful, but treated

Migraine with aura is a kind of severe headache. To talk about it, we need to describe the ailment as a whole.

Even ancient Sumerians, as well as Paracelsus and Hippocrates, mentioned pain in the head, suitable for the description of migraine.

The ancient Greeks spoke of hemicrania. This word means "half-head" and very accurately reflects the main sign of this suffering.

Migraine is an unbearable pain that affects half the head. Concomitant indispositions - nausea and vomiting, exacerbated feeling of light and sound. The pain is so strong that a person can not do anything during an attack, it is completely suppressed by a pain attack.

When migraine, the patient does not find a craniocerebral injury. There is no stroke, no brain tumors. There is no relationship between headache and unstable pressure. There is no pain associated with glaucoma.

Migraine is a vascular headache. The walls of the vessels responsible for feeding the brain expand. They press on the clumps of surrounding nerve cells, in which pain is born, in fact.

More than eleven percent of people have this health problem, which is, as a rule, the lot of women.

Migraines are classic and common.

Ten percent of patients get sick in the classical form. This is a migraine with aura.

Aura is the "preface" to pain. One type of patient suffers from visual disturbances (visions of "shrouds", "flies", bright splashes of light). Others complain of a broken sense of smell. In other cases, hearing, speech, and motor coordination are impaired.

The aura changes depending on which areas of the brain have a circulatory disturbance.

If we are talking about a form with a general current, there is no aura, and the headache appears spontaneously.

The symptoms of migraine are well known.

The minimum time of attack is several hours. Maximum - three days. Painful sensations increase gradually. Then the pain concentrates in one of the areas: temple, forehead, eye, ear, less often - neck or shoulder. Sometimes the pain extends to the whole body.

Satellites of pain:

Severe vomiting;

- dizziness;

- diarrhea;

- chills;

- urine departs more often than usual;

- sound and light stimuli cause pain.

When the attack is over, the patients feel exhausted.

Causes of migraine that provoke an attack:

• A special sensitivity to a particular food or drink (most of all - to alcohol);
• Sharply changed weather;
• Physical overload;
• Lack of sleep;
• Light bright or flashing;
• Odors from which respiratory tract irritation occurs;
• stress.

In women, migraine can occur with hormonal changes in connection with menstruation.

Severe headaches are an occasion to call a doctor. A timely examination allows you not to be afraid of brain tumor, aneurysm, hematoma and other diseases that are not migraine.

The paroxysmal course of this disease lasts for years. Manifestations are diverse and do not coincide in different patients. Therefore, migraine is treated individually.

It is very important to identify and eliminate provoking factors, especially if you need to treat a migraine with an aura:

- chronic lack of sleep;

- smoking;

- alcohol addiction;

- eating chocolate, cheeses, fish, containing the substance tyramine.

Medicinal prescriptions of medicines are possible, when there are no seizures. It can not be said that attacks are prevented by such prevention. But they occur less often, and the power of pain in case of an attack decreases.

Preventive treatment is prohibited during pregnancy.

If an attack has already begun, you must go into a dark and cool room. Cool the head with a cold compress in the forehead.

Tea and coffee, contrary to the established opinion, will not help to stop the attack. It will not become easier and from orange juice.

There is a pleasant and easy way to relieve migraines. According to many patients, it is effective. Tablespoon filled with ice cream, pressed against the soft palate and adheres until its contents melt. In this way an important center of the brain is cooled - the hypothalamus. Probably, so you can stop the pain, including the strong.

To treat a migraine with an aura and without it special strong medicines should be immediately, as soon as the aura or the first signs of pain appear. Modern medicine has drugs that facilitate or even stop the migraine attack. But without the appointment of a doctor, it is better not to try. It may happen that the drug helps one patient, but in relation to another - strengthens the attack of the attack.

With great care you need to take painkillers. Analgesics do not save from migraine, because it requires a remedy that does not dilate blood vessels, but rather narrows them. In addition, with prolonged use, there is an addiction to pain medications. Attacks of pain reappear, side effects appear.

Treatment, alternative to medicinal - physiotherapy, massages and girudoterapevticheskoe impact (therapeutic leeches). These methods have no side effects. They are equally good both for relieving the symptoms of migraine during exacerbation, and for prevention.