Lifestyle cause of headaches and migraines?

Lifestyle cause for headaches and migraines?

(31.08.2010) After an international research team recently discovered a risk gene for migraine, the General Secretary of the German Migraine and Headache Society (DMKG), Stefanie Förderreuther, was asked to emphasize the importance of lifestyle in connection with migraine to move to the discussion. Because genetic causes can not be influenced by those affected, the lifestyle is already and in many cases it is decisive for the occurrence of migraine and tension headaches.

Numerous studies have shown that obesity, lack of exercise and smoking, frequent alcohol and coffee consumption, etc. massively increase the risk of migraine. Stefanie Förderreuther has now redirected the focus of the discussion back to these risk factors in the run-up to the Deutscher Kopfschmerztag next Sunday. However, as a result, it is not sufficient to move and to feed them healthy but also relaxation techniques and stress management strategies migraines should be used preventively. An irregular daily routine as well as professional and private stress are poisonous for those affected and can cause migraine attacks, explains the expert. For example, omission of a meal or lack of fluid throughout the day can increase the likelihood of a migraine attack. It depends greatly on the person, which stimuli promote the risk of migraine, so that Stefanie Förderreuther advises those affected to run a so-called headache calendar to track down personal risk factors or triggers.

As long as the new treatment approaches such. B. the „Botox therapy“ not mature and approved in Germany, patients only have to adjust their own lifestyle in order to minimize the risk of migraine. In the treatment of symptoms are still predominantly administered classical analgesics. According to the expert, it is problematic that most of these substances, even with excessive consumption, can even lead to headaches. For example, with the administration of the painkiller „triptans“ More than ten days a month, the migraine attacks noticeably increased, explained the managing director of DMKG.

Around eight million people in Germany suffer from migraine, with around 17 percent of women and eight percent of men affected. The intensity of the symptoms in the different patients is quite different and ranges from pulsating headaches, nausea, sensitivity to light and noise, to vomiting, balance disorders, tunnel vision, speech disorders and numbness in the fingers and arms. Alternative methods from natural medicine can also help those affected to alleviate the pain. Thus, various methods such as biofeedback, draining methods (e.g., cupping), fasting and neural therapy, homeopathy, osteopathy and relaxation techniques, acupuncture, and arm and foot baths have been successfully used in migraine patients. The prerequisite for a corresponding naturopathy treatment is the analysis of the causes of the pain in the context of an amnesia with the treating therapist. (Fp)