Resumo de Migraine - Abdul Qadir

Migraine
Migraine affects up to 15% of the UK population and around two thirds of sufferers are women. An attack can last from 4 hours to 72 hours, although sufferers may feel drained for a couple of days after that. A migraine sufferer can experience an average of 13 attacks a year, but this can vary from person to person,sufferers are completely symptom-free between attacks.Migraine without aura (common migraine).
An intense, throbbing headache, often only on one side of the head accompanied by 2 or more of the following symptoms:nausea and / or vomiting photophobia (increased sensitivity to light) phonophobia (increased sensitivity to sound) osmophobia (increased sensitivity to smell) The pain is made worse by movement, and sufferers want to rest and keep still, preferably in a quiet, darkened room.
Migraine with aura (classical migraine)

In addition to the above, around 10% of sufferers also experience aura symptoms: neurological disturbances, lasting between 15 minutes and one hour before the commencement of the headache. Typically these disturbances are visual such as blind spots, flashing lights, or zigzag patterns in the vision, but can also include tingling, pins and needles or numbness in the limbs on the affected side or problems with co-ordination and articulation.Some people experience the aura only, without the development of other symptoms or with only a mild headache.
Abdominal migraine

Often occurring in children, this form of migraine is characterised by recurrent, episodic attacks of abdominal pain lasting for several hours. The pain may be accompanied by nausea or vomiting and / or aura symptoms, but no, or very mild, headache. Often this evolves to the more common migraine pattern when the child reaches adolescence.Hormonal migraine

Migraine in women can often be linked to hormone changes. Many women say they experienced their first migraine in the same year as their first menstrual period. Most female sufferers are more susceptible to an attack around the time of their period but true menstrual migraine is defined as occurring within two days either side of the first day of a monthly period and at no other time. Hormonal factors are one of many triggers for migraine and attacks may be prevented if other triggers are avoided around the time of their period.

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