Migraine

external

• Causes

  • Menstrual cycle
  • Wine
  • Cheese
  • Alcohol
  • Mitral valve prolapse
  • Antiphospholipid syndrome
  • Mitochondrial myopathy encephalopathy lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes
  • Hunger
  • Emotional stress
  • Cold weather
  • Excessive sleep
  • Warm weather
  • Female gender
  • Cerebral autosomal dominant angiopathy with subcortical infarcts and leucoencephalopathy
  • Familial hemiplegic migraine

• Effects

  • Acute headache
  • Aura
  • Nausea and vomiting
  • Photophobia
  • Delayed gastric emptying
  • Fortification spectra
  • Phonophobia
  • Osmophobia
  • Motion sickness
  • Hangover
  • Cerebral infarction
  • Organic hallucinosis
  • Thunderclap headache

• Parents

  • Primary headache disorder

• Treatments

  • Topiramate
  • Anti-migraine drug
  • Ergot alkaloid
  • Caffeine

• Description

  • "Prevalence 7% 10% may have trigeminal symptoms also"