Best neurologist in Shalimar Bagh - Why migraine is harmful to health
                     Best neurologist in Shalimar Bagh - Why migraine 
is harmful to health
Migraines have a lifespan in about 15% of the 
population, affecting women (18%) compared to men 
(8%). Migraines are acute, recurring headaches that can 
last for hours or days. They often affect one side of the 
head, causing moderate to severe palpitations, tremors, 
or severe pain. Migraine, a fairly disabling condition, is 
treated with acute and preventive medications.
Dr. Shailesh Jain handled many cases of migraines in his 
15+ years of career. He said, the pain of a single 
migraine headache usually only lasts for a few hours or 
days. But this will affect your health in many ways.
according to Dr. Shailesh Jain AIIMS Neurosurgeon, migraine is a 
chronic condition characterized by episodic attacks of disabling 
headaches. Migraine pain usually lacks other characteristics such 
as nausea, dizziness, excessive sensitivity to light, noise, and 
smell. Hunger, disturbances of bowel function, etc. Numerous 
Migraine patients with chronic migraines will have additional 
problems that increase their tendency to headache: These covers 
depression, anxiety, other pain syndromes such as fibromyalgia, 
localized pain in the head and neck structures and conditions 
that cause 'metabolic' stress such as sleep apnoea or postural 
orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. Only about 20% of migraine 
sufferers experience a headache, usually before the onset of the 
headache (but usually not). Most aura is visual, consisting of a 
combination of positive visual events (floaters, flashes of light, 
zig-zag patterns, and so on) and negative phenomena (loss of 
vision blind spots).
There are two typical patterns of headache such as Thunderclap 
headache and persistent worsening headache. 
Thunderclap headache causes Subarachnoid haemorrhage, 
Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST), Reversible cerebral 
vasoconstriction syndrome, Carotid/vertebral artery dissection, 
Pituitary apoplexy, Intracerebral haemorrhage/haematoma, 
Hypertensive encephalopathy, Hypertensive encephalopathy, 
and Idiopathic thunderclap haemorrhage (Call–Fleming 
syndrome). Persistent worsening headache causes Raised 
cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure (tumour, abscess, CVST, 
idiopathic intracranial hypertension), Low CSF volume (post-
lumbar puncture, spontaneous CSF leak), Meningitis 
(acute/chronic), Hypoxia/hypercapnia, Substance 
abuse/withdrawal, Systemic inflammatory conditions, including 
temporal arteritis.
How to relieve Migraine pain 
Migraine is the usual source of recurrent, severe headache. When 
patients have chronic severe headaches, it is often  difficult to 
acknowledge specific triggers. 
There are some drugs of first choice for migraines of mild 
or moderate severity. Aspirin, paracetamol, ibuprofen, 
naproxen, diclofenac, phenazone and tolfenamic acid can 
help to ease your pain. Also there are other treatments as 
well, such as,  Paradoxically it’s often the case that as 
chronic headaches start to boost with treatment, triggers 
become more obvious. Dietary regularity in relation to 
food, hydration, sleep, and stress is always helpful in 
reducing the tendency to migraine; Recognizing that this 
is helpful is straightforward, but it can actually be more 
difficult to make the expected changes in modern busy 
lives. Migraine prophylaxis points to turn down migraine 
frequency, severity and disability and improve quality of 
life. 
Some patients with low-frequency EM can be managed 
with effective acute therapy(i.e. drugs taken during the 
prodrome or the migraine attack to abort it) without 
prophylactic treatment, but patients with Chronic 
Migraine invariably require prophylactic treatment. While 
acute therapy aims to prevent a migraine attack, once 
initiated, the goal of prophylactic treatment is to stop the 
attacks, reducing the frequency, severity, and associated 
disability of the headache and reliance on acute 
treatment, Which may contribute to concurrent 
MOH(Medication-overuse headache). 
About Dr. shailesh jain
Dr. Shailesh Jain is the Best neurologist in 
shalimar bagh. He is a principal consultant 
neurosurgeon and stroke interventionist at Max 
Hospital Shalimar Bagh and runs his own Arihant 
Neurospine clinic in Rohini and Pitampura. 
You can Book an appointment for any kind of 
spinal cord Treatment as well as Brain Treatment.