Friday, July 30, 2010

Have headaches affect children?

Did you know?

Migraine is probably the most painful for parents of children with this terrible problem, if not suffer the same condition or not. I suffered a headache for most of my life, and as a mother, it was really painful to see that my son was 10 years old Began with symptoms of headache as well.

I remember one of the first that I had a headache,during my childhood, as in the case of a number of people suffer from migraine. However, children can experiment with different intensity of migraines, and many different children react differently than others.

Imagine just

We, as adults, can hardly cope with the painful migraine symptoms and effects, so you can imagine how difficult it would be for her children. Of course, they show their reaction to strong headaches and not being able to be as active during their childhood than other children.

My son spends most of his time at home, when he most children with migraine and also missing his school. His headache has forgotten me, my headache for a while, but with a problem in my head all the time, it feels as if my head is in a constant state of pain. You can easily irritated a lot of children during headache, and usually remains in a bad mood, unlike other children.

Drugs?

His migraine attacks are usually the heaviest during the winters and cloudy, but it is also uncomfortable with the sunlight, but migraine patients are usually sensitive to weather and light. Like all concerned parents, I had his medial examination several times, children and doctors have suggested several drugs for migraine. Drugs to calm for some time, but children have hardly done anything to prevent migraine headaches more.

Migraine is really start my life from the tormented, and continue to do so with my children. But, of course, I could easily see not only how to make this monster destroy the life of my son and nothing. I was in my active search for the treatment of migraine. Although, of course, I tried to find a solution for decades and have recently a part of many forums migraine.

I know from my experience, that only the drugs for a long stint as the treatment of migraine is concerned, since they only hide the symptoms. So after I stopped looking for answers and found them in the understanding of migraine, particularly in the methods, the natural and work permit

Common types of migraine headaches

Not every headache is a migraine headache does not cause headaches? Sound confusing? Read to learn more about the three most common types of headaches.

Migraine

Many people take a severe headache is a migraine. This is not true. When you visit the doctor, the most common symptoms associated with migraine:

Sensations of pain button.
Pain on one side of the head.
Pain moderate to severe.
Discomfort increases with normal physical activity.
recurrent attacks - which is rarely a single episode.
Other symptoms may include nausea, vomiting, sensitivity to light or sound distortions, visual.

Tension headache

common belief is that tension headaches by physical or emotional tension and stress caused. More current theories include the possibility that chronic tension headaches are a neurological causes such as migraine. The most common symptoms of tension headache: Includes

Feeling constant pain - Some people describe the feeling of tension, tightness or a dull ache.
Pain on both sides of the head (and sometimes neck and back of the head), similar to a narrow band.
Levels of pain may be mild to severe range.
The symptoms of pain tend to develop slowly, not suddenly.
Can be repeated often or very rare.

Cluster headache

cluster headaches are much less known than tension headache.cluster headache is the frequency with which they develop (the name of another right one) as the physical sensation of pain - this is a common misconception. cluster headache are usually:

A very rapid onset of pain - like a pimple JAB sudden.
Pain is usually in one place on one side of the head (often felt for the eyes.)
Physical changes can be seen as a hanging eyelids, lacrimation, rhinorrhea, perspiration, etc. on the side of the headhurts.
Exercise may improve pain. In general, patients are unable to lie down or sit still during an attack.

Migraine treatments – beta-blocker side effects and warnings

Most of the applications recommended for the treatment of heart, has also been suggested that beta-blocker treatment can help, such as migraine. Migraines can be very painful and often misunderstood. When you experience the feeling of harmony in migraine throb in my head for several days in the month to find a solution to prevent these episodes of incessant pain.

Beta-blockers relax blood vessels. As they help to relax the heart and lower blood pressure, you migraine prevention have been recommended as a long-term treatment. They block the action of adrenaline, also known as adrenaline. Taking beta-blockers, the heart beats more slowly and with less intensity, thus reducing blood pressure. Help open blood vessels and improve blood flow through the body and can reduce the frequency and intensity of headaches.

Beta-blocker side effects:

Increase in fatigue and sleepiness
cold hands and Feet
Sudden weight gain
Diarrhea
Dizzy or lightheaded

Warnings: Caution is advised when suddenly stop taking beta-blockers. Do not stop taking a beta-blocker without consulting your doctor, even if it did work, because this is the accelerated risk of heart attack or other heart problems. It should not be covered even if he has low blood pressure or asthma.

The jury is still out, as the effectiveness of beta-blockers> Treatment of migraine. It 'best to determine the cause of your headache, triggered in your body, and take measures in order to reduce the frequency and intensity, focusing on what you learned. Every man should be so much to learn how to do for your body and in particular the assessment of treatments for migraine. 'S body of each person reacts differently and responds clearly, nothing is consumed, whether they are food, air, Water, sunlight, or Pills.

After the battle with migraines most of my life, I still consider the positive and negative aspects of treatment, before something in my body. Many times I found the side effects are worse than the problem and prevail migraine treatment options. Pay attention and learn as much as possible.