The Hospital de Clínicas offers varied and innovative treatments according to the needs of the patient with migraine.
Migraine, also known as migraine, is the first reason for outpatient consultation in Adult Neurology at the Hospital de Clínicas. the doctor Gonzalo Arandaa third-year resident, explained that while migraine has no known cause so far, it can be triggered by many reasons, including hereditary (from mother and father).
A person who already has the disease diagnosed can make your headaches worse at certain timesfor example, when it is under a lot of stress, when you have any mood disorder, anxiety
The doctor stated that the treatments that they provide are personalized, that is, they adapt to what the patient needs. In other cases, when the patient has a severe headache, but this disease leaves him incapacitated, preventive medication is used with the aim of managing the headache, reducing the frequency of the pain and making the pain less intense.
There are other options for the most resistant cases, such as monoclonal medications, which is the newest. Also injectables like botulinum toxin (botox) for the treatment of migraine and anesthetic nerve blocks in the head, for pain management when it can no longer be treated with pills.
He stressed that it is important that the person affected by migraine go to the doctor, to the neurologist so that they can receive adequate treatment. Try avoiding alcohol consumption and physical activity. He added that getting a sufficient amount of sleep at night is critical.
The migraine is a type of primary headacheor, which refers to that it is not caused by other diseases; He added that there is a secondary nature, which is produced by some disease inside the head, which can be tumors or malformations.
“Generally migraine is a very intense headache, which starts slowly and gets worse. It is usually on only one side of the head, it is usually accompanied by nausea, vomiting, sometimes patients say that light or noise bothers them a lot, sometimes before their headaches they may have some visual disturbances”. The migraine is more common in women It usually starts between the ages of 15 and 20, and can also appear for the first time between the ages of 40 and 45.
He pointed out that it is the first cause in the world of external consultation, in Neurology, and of loss of working days as well. It is a disease with a lot of morbidity, affirmed Dr. Aranda.
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