How to Prevent Migraines - Non Medicative
There is a salvation from migraine with a host of treatments
available over the counter or by prescription that may help alleviate
migraine attacks. Such as simple analgesics like as acetaminophen, no
steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (naproxen and naproxen sodium,
ibuprofen, katabolic, diclofenac) can be effective.
The only opiates (codeine, butorphanol) and combined (acetaminophen /
codeine, butalbutal / ASA / caffeine / codeine, acetylsalicylic acid /
codeine) also present treatment options, but sometimes have their
drawbacks such as the danger of addiction, regular headache’s and drug
withdrawal syndrome.
The ergot alkaloids as ergotamine and dihydroergotamine represent valid
therapeutic alternatives for some patients not responding to other
therapeutic approaches. But there also exists the danger of abuse that
can lead to ergotism with all its vascular complications.
Several circumstances justify the use of prophylactic treatment or
preventive treatment when crises are predictable as in a peri-menstrual
migraine or when migraines are long and debilitating.
The main justification for preventive treatment remains the high
frequency of migraine crises when they occur, for example, more than
once a week. It may also call for a preventive migraine with
hypertension with a drug that acts on the two conditions.
With so many drawbacks to migraine medications many people search out
natural on non- drug relief. Some natural products can have a beneficial
effect in the short term, but they are tolerated by the body very
quickly, making them ineffective after three to six months in the case
of magnesium (400 to 600 mg / day), riboflavin, also known as Vitamin B2
(400 mg / day) and the matricaire (125 to 250 mg / day).
A big problem with migraine is that people react very differently to
treatments; a miracle cure for ne person may have no effect on another.
There may be multiple root causes of migraines, meaning that the
migraine is just a symptom of the problem, not the problem it’s self.
For example any people find total migraine relief at the chiropractor
because the cause of the migraine is actual mis-aligned vertebrae
causing stress and discomfort, even though the patient may not be aware
that they have anything more than a stiff neck that they believe is a
result of the migraine stress rather than the other way around. Some
practitioners and studies claim that a massive 80% of all migraine
sufferers get some or total relief using this method.
Biofeedback is a popular non-drug treatment that involves a person
learning to control their autonomic nervous system; this allows migraine
victims to control body functions that normally run on autopilot, such
as heart rate and blood pressure. This kind of treatment mostly leads to
a relaxation of the body and therefore reduces the instances of migraine
attacks as well as having other personal and medical benefits.
Another option is to remember that “you are what you eat” too much
salt in a daily diet increases the instances if migraine and headaches.
Some foods are known to set off attacks, these are mostly stimulants
such as the widely used sweetening additive monosodium glutamate,
caffeine, alcohol, cheese, and even chocolate as well as many other
foods can trigger events.
As with many migraine triggers just because cheese was the cause of your
brothers migraine does not mean that will be your problem, you will need
to experiment to find out what your personal cause may be, if you think
very carefully you may already know the problem that your body has been
trying to tell you about.
Stress is a big migraine and other headaches trigger, learning to
relax, taking up meditation or yoga, or just taking time out may be all
that you need to get rid of the problem. | 
