Tips and Self Help to avoid Migraine

The basic thing which we all have to follow to avoid Migraine is that we have to eat regularly. Researchers said that missing meals is the well known cause of Migraine particulary for children.

Avoid foods which can provoke migraine - chocolate, cheese, alcohol.

Bear in mind that parties involve a number of trigger factors - rushing, excitement, bright lights, alcohol and noise.

Late rising at weekends or on holiday can precipitate an attack so try to get up at the same time each day.

Shopping and being out in the hot sun for long hours.

Nutrition and Sleep

As with anything to do with the body, food has a crucial part to play in quality of sleep. The foods you eat can help or hinder your sleep. Lets start with the foods that will positively effect sleep.

You may have heard of trytophan, its an essential amino acid which has a calming affect on the nervous system and produces messages of restfulness and relaxation. Have you ever hear people say that warm milk will help you sleep? Well it will, and that's because it is high in trytophan. Other foods high in trytophan include red meat, turkey, bananas, figs, dates, yoghurt, tuna, and nuts just to name a few. Dark green leafy vegetables, brown rice, oats, mushrooms, dill and basil also have a calming affect on the nervous system.

Ideally, right before bed you want to eat as little as possible so that your fill your body full of energy before you sleep and become inactive for 8 to 9 hours; however if you do need to eat try something light and avoid these foods: spicy foods, bacon, cheese, chocolate, eggplant, ham, potatoes, sausage, spinach, and tomato. Stay away from food high in protein and refined sugar. These foods are going have the opposite affect on your nervous system and pick you up.

Its also recommended that you avoid coffee and tea due to their caffeine content. Caffeine is a stimulant and will therefore make you alert. Avoid cigarettes and alcohol as well. These too are stimulants and you'll end up buzzing off the walls which will really disrupt your sleep.

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How Migraine Trigger

Painful among all headaches is Migraine. One afflicted from Migraine often point out pain as throbbing or pulsing in one area of head either left or right. Migraine Sufferers became sensitive to sound and light as these direct strikes them. They may also become nauseated and vomit.

While talking about the ratio of migraine in men and women then from research it came to known that migraine is three times more common in women than in men. Some persons can predict their migraine because somewhat they temporarily lose their vision or they see flashing lights or zigzag lines.

Many things can trigger a migraine. These include

• Anxiety
• Stress
• Lack of food or sleep
• Exposure to light
• Hormonal changes (in women)

Doctors used to believe migraines were linked to the opening and narrowing of blood vessels in the head.

Now they believe the cause is related to genes that control the activity of some brain cells. Medicines can help prevent migraine attacks or help relieve symptoms of attacks when they happen. For many people, treatments to relieve stress can also help.

Depression or adjustment disorder with depressed mood?

In the presence of depressed mood accompanied by symptoms, diagnoses of major depression or adjustment disorder with depressed mood may be performed.

The diagnosis of adjustment disorder applies when the depressed mood and other symptoms develop in response to a stressful situation and that the diagnostic criteria of major depression are not met. When the criteria for major depression are met, the latter diagnosis prevails.

Here are the diagnostic criteria of major depression according to DSM IV (1):
At least five of the following symptoms have been present for a period of at least two weeks, at least one of these symptoms is either (1) depressed mood or (2) loss of interest or pleasure.

1. Depressed mood most of the day, nearly every day, as indicated by the subject or observed by others.
2. Markedly diminished interest or pleasure in all or almost all activities almost all day almost every day.
3. loss or significant weight gain in the absence of regime, or decrease or increase in appetite nearly every day.
4. Insomnia or hypersomnia nearly every day.
5. psychomotor agitation or retardation nearly every day (observable by others, not limited to subjective feelings of restlessness or being slowed down).
6. Fatigue or loss of energy nearly every day.
7. Feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt (which may be delusional) nearly every day (not merely self-reproach or guilt about being sick).
8. Diminished ability to think or concentrate or indecisiveness, nearly every day.
9. Recurrent thoughts of death (not just fear of dying) recurrent suicidal ideation without a specific plan or suicide attempt or specific plan for committing suicide.

The criteria of adjustment disorder:

A. Development of symptoms in the emotional and behavioral records, in response to one or more factor (s) identified stress (s) during the three months following the occurrence of it (them).

B. These symptoms or behaviors are clinically significant, as evidenced by:

• a marked distress, higher than was expected in response to stressors
• a significant impairment in social or occupational (or school).

C. The stress-related disturbance does not meet criteria for another disorder (for example, major depression, post traumatic stress disorder, acute stress disorder) and is not merely an exacerbation of a preexisting condition (for example, a personality disorder).

D. The symptoms are not an expression of mourning.

E. Once the stressor (or its consequences) has disappeared, the symptoms do not persist beyond 6 months.

The DSM IV identifies six subtypes of the disorder, an adaptation that are determined by the most predominant symptoms:

• With Depressed Mood
• With anxiety
• With both anxiety and depressive mood
• With Disturbance of Conduct
• With disruption of both emotions (depression, anxiety) and behavior
• Unspecified