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Causes of migraine

(06.09.2010) Around eight million people in Germany suffer from migraine. To remedy the symptoms, many of them take special migraine remedies. However, doctors now warn that the frequent intake of the drugs can trigger additional migraine attacks. As a rule of thumb, a maximum of ten days a month should be used and never more than three days in a row. Otherwise the migraine relapses will not be less but more.

Varied causes of migraine - women more often affected.
The reasons for the occurrence of migraine attacks can be extremely complex. So are a variety of relationships such. B with hormone level fluctuations, with the diet, physical fitness, personal stress, alcohol consumption and more recently with certain migraine risk genes have been thoroughly studied scientifically. In particular, hormonal fluctuations in the context of the menstrual cycle, are also called as the cause of the far higher proportion of women affected women. Of these, around 17 percent suffer from migraine attacks, compared with only about eight percent among men.

Migraine remedies can trigger a headache.
However, the findings of the research to date are of little help to those affected because the treatment is still mostly based on the administration of headaches and migraines to remedy the symptoms (pulsating headache, nausea, sensitivity to light and noise, to vomiting, Balance disorders, tunnel vision, dizziness, speech disorders and numbness in the fingers and arms). Although preventive treatments such. For example, Botox therapy is already in use in some countries, but these only help with chronic or daily migraine headaches, and their use has been the exception to date. As long as other treatment methods have not been explored, migraine remedies, such as triptans, are also available from the point of view of Dr. med. Stefanie Förderreuther, neurologist and general secretary of the German Migraine and Headache Society (DMKG), a good help for the acute case. „Only one should not take them more often than eight days a month, otherwise they lead to an increase of the migraine attacks.“ „If these drugs are taken more and more frequently and in ever higher doses, they can cause headaches and of course have side effects, such as on the stomach and intestines“, so the neurologist.

Interdisciplinary care program for migraine patients.
The KKH alliance is also dedicated to the topic of migraine during the headache consultation week from 5 to 12 September 2010. According to the health insurance fund, the disease causes annual costs of more than 3.7 billion euros and is therefore not only a burden that is difficult to bear for sufferers. As a remedy, the KKH alliance has offered an innovative care program for the treatment of migraine sufferers at several locations in Germany since 2005. Neurologists, psychologists and physiotherapists work across disciplines to analyze the cause of the pain and then treat it accordingly. "The satisfaction of the participants is high," Dr. Elisabeth Siegmund-Schultze of the KKH Alliance. Thus, "72 percent of our insured (...) describe the treatment program as very good and good, 84 percent would recommend it to a friend or close family member," said the spokeswoman for the KKH alliance. And internationally, the procedure is recognized. For example, the care program was named one of the three best models in the world by Professor M. E. Porter of Harvard Business School, USA.

Naturopathy as an alternative.
Also from a naturopathic point of view, there are some approaches for the treatment of migraine, whereby the therapist (naturopath or doctor) in the context of amnesia also analyzed for the time being, what causes the pain. Subsequently, a corresponding treatment is initiated, which is explicitly tuned to these causes. Remarkable treatment successes have already been achieved with cleansing of the intestinal flora (intestinal dysbiosis), diversion procedures (for example cupping), fasting, biofeedback, homeopathy, neural therapy, osteopathy, relaxation procedures, acupuncture as well as arm and foot baths. (Fp)

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