Migraine is a chronic, vascular, functional and paroxysmal headache that occurs periodically, usually in one half of the head. It belongs to a group of neurological diseases, characteristic for about 10% of the population and three times more common in women than in men.
Headaches are usually accompanied symptoms: vomiting, nausea, and visual disturbances sound and other symptoms that are associated with responses of the autonomic nervous system.
Sometimes this unbearable pain can cause and drug dependence who mitigate what is not good for health. Therefore, the German Institute for Quality and efficiency of health care recommended for people who suffer from migraine to reduce the use of drugs in just ten days of the month.
In addition to creating "dependency" in the sense that you can not without them get through the day, the drugs also lead to chronic daily headache that you prevents you from normal functioning during the day. The symptoms and the pain can last from two hours to three days.
In addition to them daily "attacks" this pain, these people have a fear of sudden attack of pain in the head, which is another burden to them mentally and pressure is applied to them zabrinost and all kinds of thoughts - whether they will affect their lives and to you will be able to function normally if the pain gets any bigger.
What helps people with migraines are much more autogenous training and support groups, as well as aerobic exercise. It is also extra and behavioral therapy. All of these "treatments" are not at all harmful and much much more help from drugs that are not natural, and neither good for our bodies.
What should you do if you get a migraine attack?
Dim the room and completely relax in silence. Use cold compresses, which will be placed on the forehead, and that will help alleviate the pain. You can also tie a towel, scarf or shirt around his head that will totally eliminate the pain at the moment. If you just can not stand the pain, and analgesics are not as strong, take triptans that cause constriction of blood vessels in the brain and thereby suppress pain.