How to Prevent Headaches, Migraine

Migraine headache or pain is the type of headache that can occur with the symptom such as nausea, vomiting, or sensitivity to light. Usually in the morning so that it is can disrupt the activity. People also often become more sensitive to sound, and smell. Migraine is one of the commonly headache beside heacache couse tense. Already known, headache consists of several types as follows:

1. HEADACHES DUE THE TENSION . Symptoms begin with muscle tension in neck, shoulder, and skull due to emotional stress. Pain always started from the back of the head, spread to the front, and to both sides of the head.
2. HEADACHES MIGRAINE. Headaches of a more serious headache due to the tension. Pain felt on one side the head and often also on the back of one of the eyes so that the term a half of headache. Number of women 3 times more in the men's appeal. The couse especially hormonal changes.
3. HEADACHES WITH THE VARIOUS SYMTOMS. This disease attacks the main man. Symptoms include painful and extraordinary generally focused arround on the eye with watery eyes and nose watery.
4. HEADACHES OR ALLERGIES. Often accompanied by watery from nose, watery eyes, sore throat. Can cause a certain food or all things that can cause allergic reactions.
5. SINUS HEADACHES. Easily known from the symptoms. Smellers clog one or both of them. Pain extends to the cheeks and forehead. Sections are very sensitive so that it touched directly feel pain.

HEADACHES THAT NEED OF MEDICAL HANDLING
In addition to the type of headache that is mentioned above, also have headache symptoms that arise due to interference from secondary health care needs to immediately get medical handling, immediately to the doctor or hospital if:

• Headache felt worse in the morning rather than afternoon, presage high blood pressure.
• Headache accompanied by pain in the eye, ear, or dental infections occur shows.
• Headache occurs after a task using the senses of vision, such as reading, sewing, sign irregularity in the eye.
• Tumor, stroke or may be difficult to sleep can be a cause of headache suddenly very painful. As a result, the body feels weak, with blurred vision. Headaches begin as mild pain and getting worse in the morning need review soon to know the cause.
• Headache accompanied fever by stiff neck, possible symptoms of meningitis which can be life threatening. Immediately ask for medical handling.

UNDERSTANDING MIGRAINE
Migraine is estimated to suffer 25% female and 10% men in the world. Statistic shows, women more often than men, migraine, affects more adults in the age of 20 - 50 years. Children and adolescents can also suffer migraine, particularly migraine have a family history. Genetic factors play a role in the very general occurrence of migraine. The good news, the level of illness and the frequency decreased in line with the growing age.
Although it certainly has not been known, migraine is estimated to occur due to the electrical impulse hiperaktivitas brain that increase the blood flow in the brain, cause blood vessel dilation occurs and the brain processes inflammation. As a result, pain relief and other symptoms such as nausea. The weight inflammation that happens, the more weight migraine.
Migraine can also occur due to other diseases such as asthma and depression. In very rare cases, can also be caused serious disease such as tumor or infection.

TYPE OF MIGRAINE
Migraine is classified in 4 group. Consists of:
1. common migraine
Most people with migraine included in this group.

Symptoms:

• Painful throb in one of the head
• Moderate to heavy intensity
• When severe, the patient can not beraktivitas as nausea, vomiting, sensitive to light, sound and smell.
• Pain will lost themselves in the 4 - 72 hours.

2. Classic migraine
Generally begining with symptoms called aura, a kind of vision disturbances such as wavy lines view, bright light, dark spot, or can not see objects clearly. Other aura symptoms are tingling feeling in hands or pins.
Some people can not say the words correctly, feel numb in the hand, shoulder or face, or feel weak on one side or the body feel confused. Generally have one or more of the symptoms, although it does not occur simultaneously. Generally, symptoms occur 30 minutes before the pain, can be lost or survive until the headache attack occurr.

3. Menstrual migraine
Generally occur a few days before, during, or after menstruation. People with migraine know that dialaminya associated with menstrual cycle. Pain that is felt as migraine or classic migraine.

4. Migraine complications
Often accompanied by nervous system disturbances such as numb and tingling on the skin, difficulty speaking or understanding speech difficult, is not able to move the arm or pain. Symptoms of nerve can survive even though the album still has healed.

FACTORS THAT CAUSES MIGRAINE
1. Consumption of certain foods
2. Excessive sleep or less sleep
3. Changes in weather, air pressure, altitude or time zone
4. Emotional stress or pressure
5. The very smell of smoke or cigarette sting
6. Rays of light are the reflection of sunlight or
7. Hormonal changes
8. Stress at work or at home

FOOD THAT MAY TRIGGER MIGRAINE
Certain foods can trigger migraine in some people, depending on the sensitivity of each individual, among others:

• All food processing, fermentation, pickle or marinate foods that are processed
• Food grill
• Chocolate
• Fruits such as Avocado, bananas, Citrus
• Alcohol, including diuretic substances cause dehydration or the body so that the occurrence of migraine trigger. Red wine can also trigger migraine, although rich in elements that fenolik very good for the heart.
• Caffeine, although the consumption of caffeine to help the migraine, but not recommended for people with migraine. The reason is, when addicted, less consumption caffeine can even trigger the occurrence of migraine. When you only want to stop the migraine, just drink a glass only.
• Foods that contain tiramin. Consists of red wine, old cheese - aged cheese, smoked fish, chicken liver, and specific beans.
• cheese and milk products. Although still in debate, some experts say cheese is one of the trigger migraine. Element tiramin amino acid in the cheese is estimated to be able to trigger the occurrence of headache because it reduces the degree of serotonin in the brain so that disrupt blood flow rhythm.
• Aditif food, the migraine sufferer is generally very sensitive to the foods that contain monosodium glutamate (MSG), nitrite, aspartam, tetrazine and sulfite (found in the beverage alcohol).

FOOD AND BEVERAGES ARE RECOMMENDED FOR PEOPLE WITH MIGRAINE

• Fresh Water, dehydration can cause headaches because of reduced blood volume and affect the flow of blood. To prevent dehydration drink at least 2.5 liters of water every day.
• wheat pulp. Food release this energy slowly so that helps maintain blood sugar more stable
• Nuts. As well as cereal, beans also release energy slowly.
• Ginger, nutritious reduce the feeling of nausea that usually comes with headaches.
• Foods low fat, control blood fat food with low fat, because it is associated with migraine. Reduce foodfried, dressing, and foods that contain saturated fat. Meet the needs of protein from fish or poultry without the skin.

PREVENTION MIGRAINE TIPS

• Rest. Being sensitive to light, it is advisable to rest in the dark and quiet. Information sources and the crowd luminous light. Cooldown themselves and try to sleep.
• Compress the head with ice or cold water. Compress in the pain with ice or cold water to help constrict the blood vessel.
• Avoid that cause the occurrence of migraine.
• The neck warm, rest your neck because the neck bones are a part of the body that works hard head prop. Fatigue in the neck can trigger headaches. When resting, try to warm neck massage, or give a little soft.
• Drinking pain medication. There are many pain medications be analgesic, antipiretic and aspirin. Do not carelessly take the medicine. Do not give aspirin to children and adolescents because it can cause Reyes syndrome (disease damage to the brain and liver that can cause death). Use the medicine your doctor recommended. Marketed drugs that for migraine, which can be freely purchased without a prescription is a combination of paracetamol, caffeine, asetosal. If drugs are sold freely (OTC - over the counter) this does not help, your doctor will likely prescribe a similar drug in a more powerful version.

For best results, take the medicine immediately feel so sick signs or symptom migraine. Immediately after the sleep or rest in the dark.