Migraine and Its Relation with Lifestyle in Women

Abstract

Lifestyle habits, including rest and sleep, diet and drug usage, are important factors in migraine attacks. It is important to emphasize changing habits, such as improper use of analgesics, to decrease side effects in migraine victims. The health centers should consider promoting healthy habits and behaviors as a priority in their services.

The Effect of Lifestyle Modification Program on Reducing Migraine Disability Among Migraineurs Suffers

“…Scoring system for migraine disability test included 5 questions on Likert scale ranging from (1) to (10). Sum all responses and MIDAS total score is categorized into little or no disability (0-5), mild disability (6-10), moderate disability (11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20) and severs disability more than 21.…”

“…Lifestyles play a role in preventing diseases which in turn decreases health-care expenses. Lifestyle factors include dieting and fasting, exercising and physical activities, stress level and sleeping and resting habits, smoking and medications and drugs, this factors affecting frequency, duration, and severity of migraine headache, and changing these factors in lifestyle decreases the frequency and severity of the migraine headache [10].…”

“…Exercise is believed to decrease headache intensity because during exercise, the body releases chemicals called endorphins, which reduce the perception of pain [10], [11], [12].…”

“…It was therefore necessary to recognize the migraineurs, they include skipped meals and fasting, chocolate, yellow cheese, caffeine, and aspartame and sucralose is an artificial sweetener. Sausages or other cured meats and fish, some people develop headaches within minutes to hours [9], [10], [13].…”

Evaluation of Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Migraine Patients by Ultrasound Radiofrequency-Data Technology, Preliminary Results

“…[1][2][3] It is characterized by recurrent attacks of headache accompanied by nausea, vomiting, phonophobia and photophobia. [4] Though pathological mechanisms involving neuronal inflammation, disorders of neuronal excitability, and pain regulation with trigeminovascular dysfunction have been proposed, complete pathophysiology is still unclear.…”