DEFINITION OF MIGRAINE AND PREVENTIVE TREATMENT

The migraine is a chronic illness with hereditary tendency that appears in the shape of frequent headaches. It is an illness that affects more than 15 % of the women and 7 % of the men principally between the 20 to 50 years.
The preventive treatment is suggested like treatment continued with medicines to avoid the frequency and intensity of the crises of migraine.

MEDICINES FOR THE PREVENTIVE TREATMENT OF THE MIGRAINE

• The betabloqueantes, they are used when a patient has migraine and is very anxious or suffers from arterial hypertension. (Tie it to it, Propanolol, etc...)
• The antagonists of the calcium like the flunaricina, it is effective but it produces increase of weight and sleep, by it his use remains limited to certain cases.
• The antidepressants as the amitriptilina it is indicated usually when the patient is depressive, but it can give sleep and weight increase.
• The antiepiléticos, (Valproato, Topiramato) are used in migraines with aura and very frequent. They can produce alterations of weight, fall of the hair, pins and needles and loss of concentration therefore the effective minimal dose must fit.

As preventive treatment not medicamentoso has not seen anything effective except in taking a very routine life, to sleep them necessarily - but not any more - to eat appropriately - but not very much - and to be calm avoiding the stress.

INDICATIONS OF THE PREVENTIVE TREATMENT OF THE MIGRAINE

TO SEE ALSO

• Migraines
• Tension migraines
• Other Migraines

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