According to MSc. Dr. Nguyen Mai Hoa - People's Hospital 115, many people still think that it is just a headache due to stress, while in fact, this can be a migraine, a common neurological disease that needs to be treated properly.
migraines are not like regular headaches. The pain often appears on one side of the head, throbbing along the vascular rhythm and can last from 4 hours to a few days. Patients are often accompanied by nausea, fear of light, fear of noise and increased pain during exercise. About 25% of patients have the phenomenon of "aura", seeing bright lights, bright spots or numbness in the limbs before the pain begins. If you take the medicine right now, the pain relief effect will be higher.
The body often shows signs 1-2 days before the pain appears such as continuous cravings, cravings for sweets, mood swings, and fatigue in the neck and shoulders. easy-to-ting up migraines include alcohol, coffee, starchy foods, cheese, chocolate, or lack of sleep, stress, and weather changes. In women, the disease is often more severe during menstruation.
According to Dr. Hoa, the most important thing is to take medicine as soon as possible. For mild pain, patients can take paracetamol or Ibuprofen. In more severe cases, the doctor may prescribe Triptan group, a specialty type of migraine. However, you should absolutely not arbitrarily use or abuse painkillers, as it can lead to a "headache caused by medicine".
If pain occurs 4 times/month or more, patients should take precautions by keeping a fixed bedtime, mealtime, not skipping breakfast, practicing yoga or meditation to reduce stress and keeping a pain log to determine specific triggers.
When the pain is severe as a lightningningningning, accompanied by fever, weakness, blurred vision or appears after the injury, the patient needs to see a doctor immediately. Hamage is not fate. Understanding, early treatment and reasonable prevention will help patients live healthier and more actively every day," emphasized MSc. Dr. Nguyen Mai Hoa.
