Family therapy measures

● Rest as much as possible.

If possible, find a quiet and dark room to lie down and sleep, but avoid sleeping too much to avoid waking up with a headache. Taking a nap may relieve the headache, but if you don't have a headache, you'd better not take a nap.

Sleep on your back.

Sleeping in a weird posture or sleeping on your stomach (belly down) will contract the neck muscles and cause headaches. Lying flat is beneficial. Similarly, when you are standing or sitting still, don't lean forward or twist your head in a certain direction.

● Cold compress and hot compress

Some people like cold compress on their foreheads and necks, which is effective for many people. Others like to apply hot compress to their necks or take a hot bath. When you have a headache, you can cover your forehead with hot compress or cold compress bag and massage the temporal blood vessels to relieve the headache.

● Do facial beauty exercises.

The following seven kinds of softening exercises are specially designed for the face and scalp. They are designed to help you relax the muscles in these areas and enable you to take control measures at the first sign of headache.

Raise eyebrows: Raise eyebrows on both sides at the same time, and then put them down.

Squint: Close your eyes quickly and then relax. Then, squint hard at the right eye and relax. Then, squint your left eye and relax.

Frown: Squeeze your eyebrows hard and relax.

Open your mouth: slowly open your mouth to the maximum, and then close it slowly.

Move your chin: Open your mouth slightly and move your chin left and right.

Wrinkle your nose: Squeeze your nose upward as if you smell a foul smell.

Make faces: Make faces at will, just like when you were a child. Don't worry, your face won't deform.

● Take a deep breath

Deep breathing is a good way to relieve tension. When the ups and downs of your stomach are more obvious than those of your chest, you are doing the right thing.

● Press acupuncture points.

It is found that acupoint and spine massage has less side effects and lasting curative effect than conventional drugs. There are several acupoints to relieve pain. One is Hegu point where the thumb meets the forefinger at the tiger's mouth, and the giant glimpse point at the bottom of the cheekbones on both sides of the nose (until it hurts), which helps to relieve sinus headaches; The other is the lily point on the top of the head, which is very effective for vascular pulsating headache; For migraine, pressing the cranium point (also known as the temple) is the most effective.

Wear a hair band

Putting a bandage on the head can reduce the blood flow to the scalp, thus relieving migraine.

● Take aspirin in moderation.

Aspirin or other common anti-inflammatory drugs are useful for headaches once or twice a month. But excessive use of such drugs will cause more pain. At the same time, if you decide to use aspirin to treat headache, you should take it immediately at the beginning of headache, otherwise the effect is not obvious.

● Increase the life-sustaining and C-check services.

It can cause headaches at high altitudes. At this time, it is beneficial to take vitamin C while taking aspirin. When you want to travel at high altitude, you should take 3000-5000 mg of vitamin C and two aspirin every day on the day before departure and during the journey. But you should consult a doctor before taking it. You should get the doctor's permission before taking any high dose of vitamins.

● Ways to avoid severe migraine.

This headache affects 90% of men. Unfortunately, intense migraines often recur. Strong migraines may occur every day for several weeks, sometimes even for months. The cause of its occurrence is unknown, but it may be related to hormones or heredity. At present, some people are studying the possible relationship between testosterone (androgen) and intensive migraine. At the same time, doctors also noticed a * * * phenomenon, that is, men with intensive migraine tend to be addicted to cigarettes. So it's best to quit smoking as soon as possible, or at least reduce the dose. Don't take a nap. In this way, it may be possible to formally bid farewell to intensive migraine.

● Don't wear perfume.

Strong perfume will stimulate your nerves and may cause migraine.

● Don't push too hard.

There is a situation that you may not have thought of. Believe it or not, when you don't have a headache and the atmosphere is good, sexual intercourse may have a headache, especially a hard headache. People with migraines are more likely to have this condition than those who only have tension headaches.

● Protect your eyes.

Dazzling light, such as sunlight, spotlights, TV screens, etc. It will make you squint, cause eye fatigue and finally cause a headache. Remember to wear sunglasses when you go out. If you work in front of the computer, remember to have a rest.

● Drink less.

It may be okay to drink once, but it is not good to drink too much. Alcohol also contains tyramine.

● Develop a sense of humor

If you often take things seriously, you may often frown and worry all over your head. No wonder you often have headaches. You should learn to relax yourself and look down on things around you.

Nutrition and diet therapy

● Eat on time.

Skipping or delaying meals may cause headaches. Eating less than one meal will cause muscle tension, and when blood sugar drops due to lack of food, the blood vessels in the brain will contract, and when you eat again, these blood vessels will expand, causing headaches.

● Pay attention to the amount of caffeine.

If you consume a lot of caffeine every day, your blood vessels will dilate, which may cause headaches. Therefore, it is best to limit drinking up to two cups of coffee a day.

● Eat less salt

Some people eat a lot of salt, which can lead to migraine.

● Reject chocolate

Eating chocolate is not only easy to gain weight, but also contains casein amine, which is the main suspicious thing that causes headache. Fortunately, many young people have begun to tolerate this chemical reaction.

In addition, stone fruit and aged cheese also contain casein amine, which should be avoided.

● Eat more starchy foods.

Eat more starchy foods, such as rice, potatoes, biscuits or bread. Although wheat food is a problem food that causes migraine in some people, it may help if you can tolerate it. Some people find that when they suffer from migraine, eating more toast, biscuits, pasta, potatoes or other foods rich in starch can alleviate the symptoms of headache or nausea, and even shorten the time of headache. Try all kinds of starchy foods, and experience will tell you whether these foods are effective or not.

● Avoid foods that can cause headaches.

Recent research enables us to determine more accurately which foods are problematic and which are effective. First of all, prevention is the best treatment. Let's find out the foods that may cause migraine, so that we can avoid them.

● Food that will not cause pain.

Foods that don't cause pain actually don't cause headaches or other painful situations. These foods include: brown rice, cooked fruits or dried fruits: cherries, bayberry, pears, plums (except citrus fruits, apples, bananas, peaches or tomatoes), cooked green, yellow and orange vegetables: artichokes, asparagus, broccoli, beets, green leafy vegetables, lettuce, spinach, pods, zucchini, potato flour and taro.

Water: tap water, mineral water or carbonated water. Some drinks, even herb tea, may cause migraines. Seasoning: a little salt, syrup, vanilla extract.

● Common Japanese food

Frequently asked questions Food usually makes people with weak resistance prone to headaches. You may not know what food it will be. Just as some foods can make your skin allergic to rashes, there are also some foods that can change the blood vessels or nerves of migraine sufferers. The following foods are common causes of migraine, in order of importance:

Dairy products (including skim or whole milk, goat milk, cheese, yogurt, etc.). ), chocolate, eggs, citrus fruits, meat (including beef, pork, chicken, turkey, fish, etc. ), wheat (refined bread and pasta), drupe and peanuts, tomatoes, onions, corn, apples and bananas.

Some drinks and additives are also one of the worst problem foods, including alcoholic drinks (especially red wine), caffeinated drinks (coffee, tea and cola), sodium glutamate, sugar substitutes and nitrite.

● Conduct a two-week diet adjustment experiment.

The first step in treating migraine is to check whether the headache is caused by some common problem foods. The test method is to avoid eating these things, and then add a lot of safe food to your daily diet to see if migraine will happen again. If the attack still occurs, please record the frequency of the attack.

Here are some ways to adjust your diet. It is recommended to control the time within two weeks:

1, eat a lot of food on the safe food list.

2. Completely avoid common problem foods.

3. Foods that are not on these two food lists can be safely eaten.

If you change your diet, migraine disappears or the number of attacks decreases, you must resist the temptation to open a bottle of red wine or eat a slice of pizza to celebrate. The next step is to determine which foods are your problem foods. The method is to add a previously deleted food to your diet every two days to see if there are any symptoms. Start with the last item (banana) on the problem food list, and then go all the way to the most troublesome food. Of course, you can skip the food you don't like. If you have spare capacity, you can also check whether the drinks and additives in the frequently asked food are also your problem food.

At the same time, you can eat a lot of each newly added food, so you will know whether this food will cause headaches. If it doesn't cause problems, this kind of food can be kept in your diet, and any food that causes headaches should be deleted from your diet. After a week or two, try the suspicious food again and confirm it again. Your diet should be kept simple, so that every time you add a new food, you can easily feel its effect.

● Ways to overcome the pain of pickaxe during menstruation

Changes in estrogen may make you feel headache easily. This is why migraine often begins after puberty and disappears after menopause; It is more than three times more likely to happen to women than to men, and it will suddenly disappear during pregnancy, because the influence of estrogen has just been replaced by progesterone.

Food can improve estrogen instability. If you can avoid animal fat and eat as little vegetable oil as possible, your body will lower estrogen. High-iron food can help you eliminate too much estrogen more easily.

● Use food to fight menstrual pickaxe pain.

Within your ability, it is best to treat migraine with natural food to balance hormone secretion so as to avoid side effects. Here are some principles for treating migraine with food:

1. Try to eat foods that will not cause pain, such as brown rice: cooked vegetables, such as broccoli, vegetables, spinach and beets; Cooking non-citrus dried fruits.

2. Completely avoid common problem foods. If your migraine is relieved or stopped, you can come back and try a problematic food once to determine their effect.

3. If the first two steps still can't eliminate your migraine, eliminating diet can help you find sensitive food.

4. Avoid animal food, eat as little vegetable oil as possible, and reduce the ups and downs of hormones; Eat more cereals, beans, vegetables and fruits containing natural fiber.

● Take calcium tablets.

Calcium can not only treat but also prevent migraine. According to the research report, a woman ate 65,438+0,200 to 65,438+0,600 mg of elemental calcium to stop her migraine. However, it is still necessary to avoid taking calcium from milk, buttermilk or other animal foods, otherwise the harm will outweigh the benefits.

● A small amount of meals.

A small amount of meals can stabilize blood sugar concentration and not cause migraine. Diet should include almond fruit, almond milk, watercress, parsley, fennel, garlic, cherry and pineapple. See Chapter 4, Hypoglycemia, and refer to its dietary guidelines.

● Supplementary nutritional examination

① magnesium

Studies have shown that magnesium can treat migraine. If your diet contains a lot of magnesium, the risk of migraine must be very low. One of the reasons why emotional stress can lead to migraine may be that it will exhaust magnesium in your body. Researchers have found that in addition to taking magnesium from food, taking 200 mg of magnesium supplements every day can help you prevent migraine.

Magnesium is especially effective for premenstrual headache in women, and is usually taken with 50 to 100 mg of vitamin B6.

If you take this combination every day, it is very effective for treating premenstrual headache, but you can also take it five days before menstruation. We can also get magnesium from food, which is rich in magnesium, including whole grains (grains containing natural full fiber), rice, barley and oats; Dried non-citrus fruits, such as figs; Green vegetables, especially broccoli and spinach. These are all safe foods that will not cause pain.

② calcium and vitamin d

Calcium and vitamin D can also be used to prevent migraine. You can take supplements, but the best sources of calcium are green leafy vegetables and pods. If you take nutritional supplements, you can take 1000 to 2000 mg of elemental calcium a day.

The ability of the human body to absorb calcium in food is related to vitamin D, which is naturally formed by the skin in the sun. As long as you bask in the sun for ten minutes every day, the vitamin D produced is enough for your body. If you take vitamin D supplements, the appropriate dosage is 200 international units (5 micrograms) per day. The dose of migraine prevention in the study is 50000IU per week, which far exceeds the general safety recommendation, so you should take such a high dose under the guidance of a doctor. At the same time, animal protein, coffee, tobacco and excessive sodium and sugar should be avoided to prevent calcium loss. Regular exercise can also help you keep calcium in your bones.

③ Gluconic acid

Take 1 tablet each time and dissolve in the mouth twice a day. Can improve the oxygen and function of the brain.

④ Nicotine thiamine plus nicotine 16 (B3)

Take 800 mg and 200 mg each time, three times a day. They can improve blood circulation in the brain.

⑤ Rutin

200 milligrams a day. It can help remove toxic gold chips that may cause migraine.

⑥ progesterone

Progesterone is a natural over-the-counter hormone, which can help the human body to suppress the drastic changes of hormones. It can help women to eliminate migraine, at least for those women who often have migraine before and after menstrual cramps.

Natural progesterone comes from wild yam. To treat migraine, over-the-counter topical progesterone emulsion, such as Pro-Gest, can be used. Ten days before menstruation, applying a thin layer to the skin every day will consume about 65,438+0-2 ounces.

⑦ Pantothenic acid (B5) or royal jelly (natural)

Every time 100 mg, twice a day. Royal jelly is rich in pantothenic acid. Help the upper kidney cope with stress.

Chinese herbal medicine therapy

Try the following medicinal plants.

① pyrethroid chrysanthemum

Take 2.50 mg or 2 ~ 3 fresh leaves every day.

② Extract of Chrysanthemum morifolium and Ginkgo biloba leaves

Chrysanthemum can relieve pain, and ginkgo can promote blood circulation in the brain. An experiment on the medicinal properties of chrysanthemum shows that 24% users have relieved the symptoms of migraine and vomiting, and there are no side effects.

Mint, rosemary and wormwood are all effective substances for treating migraine.

Other therapies

● Exercise more.

Exercise is one of the effective ways to prevent headaches, because exercise can help you relieve tension and stress. If the headache is not too serious, exercise can help you get rid of it. But if you have a bad headache, don't exercise, so as not to make the situation worse, especially for migraine patients.

Try biofeedback.

Biofeedback is a technique to control blood flow by relaxing body and mind, which is helpful to relieve migraine and tension headache. During the biofeedback process, the coach will put a thermometer on your index finger. If you relax, this thermometer will show that your blood vessels have dilated, helping blood flow to your fingertips. Believe it or not, your will can affect whether blood flows to your brain, which in turn affects your headache. Please consult your doctor about biofeedback training.

● Acupuncture treatment

Acupuncture is also helpful to many people. You can consult your doctor about the treatment plan.

● Use Chili to treat headaches.

The oldest way to treat migraine is to use capsaicin, which is an irritating component in pepper and can exhaust the chemical P responsible for nerve conduction (nerve cells use this chemical to transmit pain signals). A special study put a special capsaicin into the nostrils of 15 patients with headache. Among them, 7 people's headaches completely disappeared, and the pain of the other 3 people was reduced by 75%.

● Drinking more soup can relieve headaches.

Ginger can block histamine and inhibit prostaglandin, which is one of the chemicals that cause inflammation. Generally blind, few people are allergic to ginger, or suffer from migraine due to ginger. Add 500-600 mg (about 1/4 teaspoon) of fresh ginger powder to a glass of water and drink it evenly, which is very helpful to relieve headaches. You can drink a cup every few hours, about 2 grams a day.

● Always listen to light music.

Light music has a calming effect and helps to relieve migraine.

drug therapy

● Selective medication.

If you follow the above method completely, but still feel a little headache, you must be wondering whether you should take painkillers. Before you do some research on your problem food and try to follow an ideal diet, don't take medicine as the main axis of treatment, or you will add fuel to the fire. Medicine can't replace diet therapy, but it can be used as an auxiliary means when necessary. The following is a brief introduction of some anti-migraine drugs and their main side effects:

1. aspirin It helps to relieve mild headache, but the main disadvantage is that it causes gastrointestinal discomfort, bleeding and allergic reaction. Children must follow the doctor's advice when taking aspirin, because it may cause Ledig's disease.

2. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. For example, Ipp is very similar to aspirin, so these drugs can also cause gastrointestinal side effects.

3. Acetaminophen. It can also slightly relieve the symptoms of mild headache, but long-term use will cause liver and kidney problems.

4.Metolamai。 It is often used for oral analgesia to improve drug absorption and relieve nausea symptoms.

5, ergotamine. It can constrict dilated blood vessels, and it is effective for most people if taken in the early stage of migraine. But the biggest danger is that if you take it every day, it will become a habit, thus inhibiting the body's natural ability to fight the virus. Once the drug is stopped, severe and long-term headache may occur, and ergotamine is not helpful for tension headache.

6. sumatriptan: It can relieve migraine and severe headache. Its function is to narrow the blood vessels leading to the brain, thus retaining the efficacy of long-term use of blood vessels. Overuse and abuse are rare.

7. Likadon: More than half of the people who have used it can eliminate migraine with only 4% solvent. The use method is to lie on the bed or a big table, hang your head along the edge, and then turn to the side with headache. Drop half a gram of lidocaine solvent through the nostril and wait for about 30 seconds. If you have a headache on both sides, you should also drop the medicine in the other nostril. Ricardone has obvious effects on nerve bundles under nasal mucosa. If necessary, you can put it down for a second time after 2 minutes.

● Drugs that can prevent migraine.

If you try to improve your diet, take pyrethroids mentioned above and other measures to prevent sudden attacks, but your migraine just doesn't stop, or you have more than three attacks a month, then you may need to consider taking preventive drugs. This medicine will not eliminate all migraines, but it will reduce the frequency of attacks. You have to wait patiently for a month or two to see the effect of these drugs. Of course, you must make a correct diagnosis before the doctor. However, usually this medicine is not helpful for tension headache.

1. Propranolol and metoclopramide: About one-third of migraine patients will greatly reduce their symptoms after taking the medicine, and another one-third will slightly reduce their pain. They are safe for most people and have a long history of use. But if you have asthma or diabetes, you shouldn't take these drugs. In addition, because propranolol can prevent the heart from speeding up, you must discuss the measurement method of your exercise with your doctor in advance.

2. Calcium channel blockers: sometimes used to prevent migraine, especially in Europe. However, due to side effects, doctors nowadays are increasingly reluctant to use this drug.

3. Serotonin blocker: The effect is similar to that of propranolol, but there are many side effects after long-term use, especially in the chest and abdomen.

4. Mi An Purin: It is an antidepressant and can also prevent migraine. Generally speaking, it is safe, but there will be common side effects such as dry mouth, constipation and drowsiness. Don't exceed the prescribed dose when taking it.

5. Boyic acid: It is an antispasmodic and can also prevent migraine. But occasionally there will be side effects, such as weight gain, hair loss and trembling.

6. Aspirin: It can also help you prevent some migraines. A medical study found that if you take it every other day, you can reduce the frequency of migraine attacks by 20%, but you should still weigh the benefits against the aforementioned side effects.

● Danger signal

Headache can usually mean serious illness. If your headache has the following symptoms, you should be vigilant and go to the hospital as soon as possible.