Wednesday, July 28, 2010

The treatment of migraine

Here are several possible treatments for migraine and the prevention and treatment failed. Patients with frequent attacks in the rule should address the acute and prophylactic therapy. The acute treatment of migraine abortive, if possible, is to stop or prevent the effect of headache, or even reverse the headache had already begun

preventive treatment of migraine is applied against, even if not headache today. This is the attack to reduce the frequency and severity of migraine. If you are able to respond to acute attacks, treatment failure, which greatly improves the quality of life of patients.

Therapy failed to treat migraine in the use of many drugs and not a patient chooses, depending on the severity of the attack. Nausea and vomiting and concomitant problems also used to determine which method may be migraine be used as therapy for the treatment failed. However, therapy should be used and only failed to counter 2-3 days a week for the development of the phenomenon of rebound headaches

Rebound headache is that it does the following functions are not hindered.


The headache that occurs every day
analgesic rebound also occurs in patients with primary headache disorder, and often uses relaxed, sometimes to excess
Headache differ in intensity, extent, type and location each time
Analgesic rebound is also a repeat if they characterize a slight physical effort or intelligence
These headaches are usually caused by weakness, restlessness, anxiety, irritability, memory loss, depression, difficulty concentrating and nausea, followed
Concomital migraine prophylactic treatment is ineffective, especially if the relief of the patient consumes large amounts of immediate drugs
prophylactic therapy may be used to treat migraine under the following conditions

When ¯ there is a contraindication to ineffectiveness symptomatic

• If two or more attacks per month and the same thing with a disability can, can last 2-3 days about

· For you it is the migraine hemiplegic migraine variants, or create a headache attack back, or fundamental error risk of permanent brain damage

Prophylactic drugs for migraine work the following mechanisms


Regulation of calcium channel blockers or voltage gated channels
Modulation of central neurotransmitters such as beta-blockers and tricyclic antidepressants
Replace with the modification of neuronal metabolism and riboflavin oxide for reduction of neuronal hyper excitability by magnesium