Friday, February 15, 2013

News hormonal headaches

Most cases of headaches among women are caused by hormones. The researchers say there are at least five million women suffer from hormonal headaches each month.
Some researchers also say that more than half of women who develop a migraine headache, Alahzn a relationship between headaches and menstrual cycles. Tends this type of headache which has become known as menstrual migraine to be particularly severe.
Begins migraine (migraine) in probably two days before a menstrual cycle, or in the first three days, due to the natural decline of estrogen levels in these times. These attacks are the headaches usually more severe than the headaches that occur at other times of the month, and are more likely to return again the next day.
The menstrual cycle is not alone only raises a hormonal headaches; There are other reasons are:
Oral contraceptives composite of hormones (estrogen and progesterone). But some women find headaches had improved during the intake of these disks, while others report they suffer from their more frequent headaches attacks, especially in the week of free taking oral contraceptives when estrogen levels drop.
Menopause. Headache is getting worse in the habit with approaching menopause, due to the menstrual cycle comes more than usual on the one hand, and to disrupt normal hormonal cycle in women on the other hand.
Pregnancy. May worsen headaches in the first few weeks of pregnancy, but it usually improves or stops completely during the last six months of pregnancy. It does not matter this headache fetus.

How will you know women that headache is caused by hormones?
Useful to keep the diary for three menstrual cycles, at least, to help ascertain whether migraine is associated with PMS;, if there is a link, notebook can help determine the stage where there is a migraine of the menstrual cycle.

How women can help themselves?
If docket showed that the headache occurs prior to the date of the menstrual cycle, women can take steps to help them avoid migraines, and include the following:
Snacking and small food to maintain a high level of blood sugar, as the left meals or travel long without eating can raise the attacks. Should have a snack before going to sleep, eat breakfast always.
Attempt to engage in a regular form of sleep, and avoid excessive sleep or sleep a little.
Try to avoid stress; If it is proven that it is difficult, should develop ways to deal with stress, such as regular exercise of any activity, and the application of relaxation techniques.

How can a doctor to help the patient?
If the woman has regular monthly cycle, it may relieve eat more estrogen hormonal headaches, and before the date of the menstrual cycle, and is to continue capturing a few days of the menstrual cycle. The doctor prescribing Alastroyjanah which can be in the form of ointments paint and rub on the skin, or be in the form of labels affixed to the skin.
As the doctor can also prescribe drugs sister, taken in the period around the time of the menstrual cycle; these drugs do not contain hormones, but they can help to stop the occurrence of headaches. These drugs include tablets of the drug "triptans" and another type of painkillers called mefenamic acid.
Tell your doctor if a woman believes that the pill makes migraines have more worse. If headaches occur during the days that do not take the pill, it can avoid a sudden drop of estrogen, and by taking several packs of disks continuously without interruption.
The hormonal changes that occur when women when approaching menopause means that all types of headaches, including migraines, become more common.
Can address the hormonal compensatory be useful for the treatment of hot flashes and sweating; but if a woman's migraine headache, it is best to use labels or ointments, because these forms pharmaceutical maintain hormone levels more stable than shape tablets, and less likely to provoke migraines in women.

Some information for tension headache

Tension headache

The pain caused by tension headache is one of the most common symptoms experienced by the human. Doctors do not know the cause of tension headaches. There are many people do not suffer from tension headaches only sporadically, while others suffered almost daily or twice or more a week.
Usually arises a tension headache with middle age, and continue back and forth for several years. It affects men and women equally likely.

Symptoms

Natural sense in cases of headache is a narrow or constant pressure, and often comes in the form of narrow strap surrounds the head. The headache often begins at the end of the day and may continue for a few minutes or days or months or even years. The pain may not be barely noticeable or sharp or located between this and that. The high intensity and wither. And distress caused may make it difficult for you to sleep Agalbh but usually not so severe that infects one insomnia.

Treatment Options

To determine the cause bouts of headache accurately, it is useful to keep Ninja Diary of a headache, Lyndon pattern and events make the headache begins. Your doctor may looking for other potential sources of head pain by conducting tests of the nasal or checking your pockets. Will not need diagnostic tests such as X-rays of the skull or computerized tomography if the symptoms indicated that you are suffering from tension headaches.

There is no cure for tension headaches, but the pain can be housed with analgesic drugs sold without the need for a prescription, such as aspirin, acetaminophen and ibuprofen. And get more tension headaches who are depressed or anxious, so handle the pressure or deal with or treat depression may be useful in this case.
Some people have found comfort eating antidepressants heterogeneous annular structure, even if they are not already infected with depression. As well as respond to tension headaches massage, or hot or cold shower, or relax and proper food, rest and exercise.

To get to know more about cluster headaches

Cluster headaches is among the most common types of headaches unit, it causes severe pain, breaking in one eye and around.
Most people with cluster headaches that come to them in the form of headaches bouts, any combination of one to three bouts daily over a period of a few weeks or months alternating with periods without headaches.
And about. 2% of people have a chronic form of this headache, and it will continue attacks on a daily basis for a year or more before it enters the patient in a state of dormancy.

And chronic headaches more difficult to treat with drugs from cluster headaches, which comes in the form of episodes and there is no known cause or cure for cluster headaches, which may continue with one all his life. Although the headaches of this kind very painful to the point, there is no him permanent damage or relationship with another sick. However, the severe pain around one eye may also indicate the presence of acute glaucoma, a condition that requires immediate medical attention.

And cluster headache affects mainly men, and be the first bout usually during adolescence or early twenties. For those who suffer cluster headaches, smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol may raise heart during cluster periods and not during periods of inactivity.

Symptoms

Typical cluster headache begins suddenly, and this is usually after two to three hours after a person covered in sleep. The pain is severe, and firm  and supernatural, and usually starts behind one eye but may sometimes infects cheek, near the ear, or in some other places nearby. The tears in the affected eye profusely or look red color of blood, has eyelid, nose and look at first blocked and then begins to cold, and glowing cheek and swollen.
During per shift, all the symptoms occur on the left or right side, but it does happen on both sides at all. Most people get always on the same side. After an hour or two, usually what Isog pain and other symptoms, and sometimes a this reclusion sudden as started, but start at the same time of day after Packer.

Treatment Options

Painkillers such as aspirin, ibuprofen and acetaminophen is effective with cluster headaches, and this is due mainly because the impact is too slow.  an analgesic and anti-inflammatory often achieves great effectiveness. .

What is a migraine

Definition of migraine (Migraine) source from the Greek word from the floor (Hemicrania) means, literal translation: half of the skull. Name derives from one of the characteristics of migraine, as the migraine usually affects a half head. Migraine is a chronic disease that manifests itself in frequent cases of headache, accompanied by physical and psychological phenomena, too. It is a common disease in about 12% of the population.

 Description bout headaches: in the first phase of the Nuba, appears in about a third of the patients prior symptoms last from hours to days before to get a seizure. These symptoms include: mood changes, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, hunger or a stiff neck.

Definitions: can be classified migraine attacks into two types: migraine without aura, which is the most common type, up to 66% of migraine attacks with neighboring (Aura) (and formerly called: classic migraine). Has identified the International Society for headache (International headache society) definition migraine according to the following indicators:

1. Wounding a typical patient with five bouts featured in his life.

2. Migraine lasts from 4 hours to 72 hours.

3. Features include pain advantages two, at least, of the following: (a) the concentration of pain in only one side (unilateral); (b) shows the pain if an pulse; (c) be a pain moderate to severe; (d) aggravated pain when exercising physical effort.

4. Nubia, the patient suffers from one, at least, of the following symptoms: (a) nausea, vomiting or both; (b) sensitivity to light or noise.

 5. Not attributable heart to another problem.

Migraine accompanied Balorh is migraine, which be a نوبتان it, at least, accompanied Paorh distinctive for the following disorders: 1. Numbness (lack of feeling) or speech disorder, soon disappear completely; 2. Disorder in one hand, or on both sides of the field of vision, appears in the form of flashes, glamor, lines, spots or lack of vision, accompanied by sensory disturbances in one side of the body, or without; 3. One, at least, of the following phenomena: (a) one (or more) appears and lasts for 5 minutes, (b) continue to display for more than 5 minutes but less than 60 minutes; 4. Typical migraine aura develops or within 60 minutes of its appearance.

Neurological examination of physical and other tests, such as blood tests, examination of brain CT (Computed Tomography - CT), brain imaging MRI (Magnetic resonance imaging - MRI), or check EEG (EEG - Electroencephalogram) shows a situation properly, usually , in the case of migraine headaches, and often there is no need to state tests, absolutely. Can be diagnosed based on the patient's description - (disease - Anamnesis) and on the basis of normal neurological examination, Salim.

The spread of the disease: spreads migraines are very large population of Western countries have suffered 18% of women and 6% of men, at least, from migraines once, at least. 60% - 70% of those who suffer from migraines are women. Before puberty prevalence of migraines about 4% and then spread increases, at a later stage, especially among girls up to the age of 40 years. After 40 years of age, and with advancing age, begins a decline in injury migraines. Highest prevalence among women is between the ages of 25 and 55 years. Migraine does not endanger the lives of patients at risk, but cause great harm to the quality of life and normal track, causing the loss of working days and material losses.

Symptoms of migraine
Within migraine symptoms appear aura quarter of patients: transient localized brain damage is reflected in the vision disorder (the most common), a sense of disorder, lower body strength, the right side or the left, a disorder of the balance or speech disorder. The show aura, usually, before the onset of headache, but it may appear at times, too, during or after the headache, and takes less than an hour. Because of the similarity, sometimes thought as a stroke, but is not caused by a blockage in a blood vessel, not even a stop in blood flow to a particular part of the brain. The next stage is a headache. The pain usually begins on one side of the head, but sometimes moves to the other side, too, and then gradually increasing intensity in a matter of hours, beating and affect the functionality of the person. The headache is usually accompanied by nausea, and sometimes vomiting.

Excessive sensitivity to stimuli, such as: light, noise and smell, and preferably the patient to lie down in the dark and quiet until the end of Nubia and its demise. It can also be Nuba accompanied by a sense of fatigue, thirst, excessive urination, pale, sweating, hunger or lack of appetite, nasal congestion, feeling cold or heat. In addition, they can get also a decline in the ability to concentrate, feeling depressed, anxiety and nervousness. The final phase of a bout of migraine (migraine) is the stage of "absorption" as patient stays exhausted, nervous or is a quiet, little ability to focus, with remarkable sensitivity of the scalp. While some patients may feel depressed (Depression) and discomfort, others feel them refreshed and rejoicing after a seizure.

Catalysts (Catalyst) the most common for the Nuba are: stress, fatigue, excessive sleeping, fast, irregular eating to skip some meals, eating certain active substances in the blood vessels (Vasoactive), caffeine, alcohol, menstruation, changes in atmospheric pressure (Barometric pressure) and geographical changes in elevation. There are some medications that can speed up a heart, such as: nitrate (Nitrate), hormones Alastrugenih, Alandomed (Indomed) or Eliserbin (Reserpine).



The causes and risk factors for migraine
Of the most important reasons for migraine headaches: a disease influenced by a large family. , About 70% have some of those who suffer from migraine headaches first degree relative suffering from migraine headaches, and that first-degree relatives of people who suffer from migraines are more prone to migraines injury of other people, at a rate of 1.5 - 2 times more. If migraine with neighboring, brings to four times the average.Studies show that migraine does not result, in most cases, by a defect in a single gene, but is linked to several factors, whether genetic or environmental.

The real cause of migraine headaches is still unknown and is quite clear, but it is known today that there are processes which affect and related appearances.When an external factor (lack of sleep, a particular food) alert trigeminal nerve (nerve Trigeminal) in the skull, this nerve norepinephrine mediators pain (Substance P and CGRP) into blood vessels in the casing of the brain, which causes secretion of mediators infections other than mast cells (Mast cell), whereupon the turn attract inflammatory cells (neutrophils lobed nucleus - Polymorfonuclear neutrophil) to that region.In this case, it will be the penetration of pain mediators and expansion of the blood vessels of the causes of the pain, too.

Migraine treatment
Migraine treatment consists of three types of treatment:

Behavioral therapy to prevent heart attacks, such as: regular sleep, regular meals, avoid certain foods that contain caffeine, Taramen (Tyramine), monosodium Glotomat (Monosodium Glutamate) or nitrates (Nitrates).
  Treatment by drugs to prevent heart: can be described in the case of multiple episodes (more than one bout in two weeks) or continuous and sharp attacks. The list of medications these drugs effect on blood vessels, such as: beta blockers - Beta blockers (eg, propranolol - Propranolol), calcium channel blockers - Calcium channel blockers (eg, verapamil - Verapamil), antiepileptic drugs (eg, acid Alvalborak - Valporic Acid, Topiramate - Topiramate), tricyclic antidepressants - Tricyclic antidepressants (amitriptyline - amitriptyline) and other drugs.
Treatment to relieve symptoms during Nubia:
     (A). Pharmaceuticals ordinary against pain Awalgthian (relievers, such as: paracetamol - paracetamol, - Dipyrone), aspirin (Aspirin) and NSAIDs (Non - steroidal Anti - Inflammatory Drug - NSAIDs), analgesics opioid (Opioid drugs) or a combination of drugs from different groups.

    (B). Pharmaceuticals especially for migraine headaches, including ergotamine-type drugs (Ergotamine drugs) and medicines of Alterbtanat family (Triptans).And Drug oldest in this group is sumatriptan (Sumatriptan). And later appeared to use: Alitreptan (Eletriptan), Naratreptan (Naratriptan), Rizzatreptan (Rizatriptan) and Zulmitreptan (Zolmitriptan). For these drugs good effect and highly effective at the time of the seizure.

What is a headache and what types of

Definition:
Is a pain in the head and different and described according to its kind, combined with factors and different reasons below.

Types of headaches:
Tension headaches ... Tension due to stress and physical fatigue.

Migraine "sister" .. detail later.

Cluster headaches .. Comes in the form of groups.

Hormonal headaches .. Due to a disorder of the hormones and often female hormones and the rest of the body's hormones.

Sinus headaches .. Because of a sinus infection.

Organic headaches .. Due to an imbalance in the brain or skull as the existence of a tumor or inflammation due to a previous infection.

Headaches reactionary .. Because of taking certain medications containing caffeine in particular.

And different diagnosis and on each of the previous types depending on the causative factors and which require different treatments.

What are the medical benefits of kiwi?

The type of kiwi fruit with high health benefit, those brown-skinned fruit pulp and green, which usually contains small black seeds bear interest of what can not be expected.

Begin kiwi assets from China, and Italy is one of the highest states productive, and what we talked about the benefits they are filled with fruit quota favored dealt with between now and then. You these benefits:

Medical benefits for kiwi fruit:
- Sweet fruit tart delicious and thus benefit the body to get vitamin [C].
- Kiwi seeds bear Zeta Java and use of alternative sesame seeds which is easy to digest and do not cause  harmful for the body.
- Using its roots in multiple medical treatment, including treatment of scabies and itching and skin allergies.
- Fruit juice helps to address the acidity in the stomach.
- Fruit medical benefits to the elimination of worms, particularly Ascaris in the abdomen.
- Treated by the meat internal anal itching and hemorrhoids.

Public benefits to kiwi fruit:
Nutrition experts say that the kiwi fruit is very rich vitamin (c), and Kiwi also contains salts, phosphorus, potassium, iron, and the most important benefits of the following:

Get rid of severe cold.
increase the body's own ability to defend natural biological (ie activate the human immune).
resistance circulatory disorders.
activation of nerve tissue cells.
help patients with anemia.
help to stimulate human physical weakness.
help in the digestion process.
Molina of the intestines.
help to reduce blood cholesterol.
be fibers good material for making paper.

Parsley benefits - medical benefits of parsley

Limited benefits parsley in his papers only has medical benefits many because it contains a high percentage of vitamin (A) Tonic sexual energy and vision, and the high proportion also of vitamin (C) Assistant to increase the body's resistance to disease and cold bronchitis.

The main benefits of medical parsley as follows:

1. Splenda: parsley juice helps a lot to lose weight, including its effectiveness and clear in the melt fat and grease accumulated in the human body.

2. Useful in the treatment of liver and gallbladder.

3. Circulatory and heart: It is reported parsley in treating anemia, and so is the treatment of anemia, helping to expand the blood vessels, and is working to renew the fine capillaries, and regulates blood circulation in the body, as well as that it is beneficial for the heart.

4. Musculature: strengthens the muscles of the body parsley, as it renews cells.

5. Nervous system: parsley strengthens the nervous system, as well as it strengthens memory, and resist oblivion.

6. Urinary system: parsley ease the pain of the kidneys, bladder and urethra, as it addresses the stones urinary tract Bamaptha, (boiled parsley seeds Sherpa is used to treat urinary retention).

7. Gastroenterology: Appetizing parsley, and helps to digest the food, as it is an effective treatment for constipation and gas, it is a laxative, and soothing, soothing the stomach.

8. Skin: boiled parsley (package in one liter of water) washes out facial reviving the his freshness and vitality, it also addresses the pimples and grain, and so twice daily for a week, and serve boiled parsley the skin fatty, as maintain the integrity of the skin and purity, also uses compresses the breast to treat infections and feeding problems, then dilute it to heat, and streaky.

9. Respiratory: parsley useful in asthma, and respiratory disorders, and parsley juice treated bronchial infections, and that boiled parsley in water for 10 minutes, then drink it several times during the day, to purify and cleanse the respiratory system.

10. Reproductive system: parsley effective treatment Lye l for women, for the treatment of gonorrhea white and menstrual irregularities, as it organized for menstruation.

11. Parsley oil is used as a treatment for erectile dysfunction. And suicide of bio-energy and physical strength.

12. Parsley is useful in the treatment of rheumatism ..

13. Immune System: parsley increases the body's immunity against many diseases.

14. Thyroid: boiled parsley helps in the treatment of hypothyroidism, and that boiled at night, and then drink it pint before going to sleep, and a pint on an empty stomach, for 3 days.

15. And chewing parsley eliminates the smell of onions in the mouth.

This means that the parsley in the home medical pharmacy semi-integrated prevention and treatment,