Common causes of migraine and western medical treatment

       People’s lives are becoming increasingly stressful and migraines are getting worse. Now, let’s talk about the causes of migraine, which can be caused by stress, mental tension, nerve cord compression, fire and many other different conditions. Here, we will talk about its causes specifically: Hormonal changes and drug effects 35% Oral contraceptives can increase the frequency of migraine attacks. Menstruation is a common trigger or aggravating factor for migraine “cyclic headache”. Pregnancy and sexual intercourse can trigger migraine attacks “sexual intercourse headache”. Typical migraine attacks can occur in some susceptible individuals after taking nifedipine, isosorbide, or nitroglycerin.  Weather changes, food additives and beverages 15% Especially when the weather turns hot, cloudy or humid. Most common are alcoholic beverages, such as certain red wines. Dairy products, cheese, especially hard cheese, coffee, foods containing nitrites, such as soup, hot dogs. Certain fruits, such as citrus fruits, chocolate “chocolate headaches”. Certain vegetables, yeast, artificial sweets, fermented pickled products: e.g. kimchi, MSG.  Exercise 10% Small movements of the head can trigger or aggravate a migraine attack, and some patients are afraid to ride in a car for fear that it will cause a migraine attack. People who play soccer with their heads on the ball can trigger headache “soccer player migraine”. Climbing stairs upstairs can cause migraine.  1.Sleeping too much or too little.  2.A meal is missed or postponed.  3.Smoking or being in the smoke.  4.Flashing light, too strong light.  5.Tension, anger, depression, crying “crying headache”, many women can have migraine attacks when they go to the mall or to crowded occasions. Some people abroad can get migraine headache when riding a horse, even though it is crowded for less than 1 minute.  In short, the above are the causes of migraine.  Then how should migraine be treated?  For a long time, the most commonly used drugs for the treatment of migraine are: aspirin, anti-inflammatory pain, matrasug, nimodipine, cipro, and in severe cases, ergotamine or closed therapy. The above treatments are often ineffective, and even for patients with severe and intense migraine it is difficult to even relieve the symptoms.  Experts have found that the distribution of scalp, fascia, nerves and blood vessels in the pain area of patients with intractable migraine is disturbed, resulting in the increase and expansion of local blood vessels, so that the distribution of nerves in the head is compressed by the reticular blood vessels, especially the nerve endings are especially sensitive to the compression, and this kind of pain-causing source with reticular distribution is called “pain network”. This kind of reticulated source of pain is called “pain network”. Based on the above causes, neurosurgery was adopted to release or remove the dilated and proliferated scalp vascular network and some nerves under surgical microscope, thus fundamentally removing the causes of migraine. After more than 60 cases of surgery, it was found that 72% to 80% of migraine patients were cured or significantly improved. Although microsurgery has achieved good results in the treatment of migraine, not all migraine patients are suitable for surgery.  The specific indications for surgery are: 1. migraine headache with fixed site, severe pain, frequent attacks, and long-term medication ineffective for more than 3 years; 2. common or cluster migraine headache with fixed pain site for more than 3 years; 3. migraine headache with fixed pain site in frontal, temporal or occipital area or fixed in double frontal, double temporal or double occipital area; 4. migraine headache with local or perivascular application of nufcaine for local closure of pain Those whose pain is relieved or disappeared. All migraine patients who meet one of the above conditions can be considered for surgical treatment.  Through the above introduction, I hope you can understand some of the causes of migraine and some of the treatment methods of western medicine. In fact, such a disease should be detected and treated as early as possible, so that it will be easier for the patient and his family.