Migraine trigger is believed to be related to physical abuse in childhood although it has not been established that physical abuse in childhood is a cause of migraine in adulthood.
Migraine is a throbbing headache often accompanied by nausea and vomiting. Patients are usually sensitive to light, sounds and even smells. This type of headache often only affects one side of the head, sometimes moving to the other side, but also can attack both sides of the head at once.
Two studies conducted in Canada and Taiwan have recently demonstrated that migraine is linked to physical abuse in children. The results of two studies published in the journal Headache that shows the relationship between physical abuse in childhood with a migraine, but does not prove that torture was causing migraines for some people.
A number of Canadian researchers found that migraines are two times more common in adults who experienced physical abuse in childhood, compared with those who did not experience it. Research in Canada’s leader, Dr. Esme Fuller-Thomson, of the University of Toronto, and colleagues based their findings on data from Canadian health surveys in 2005. Than 13,000 respondents in the study, 7 percent said they experienced physical abuse during childhood. As many as 18 percent of adults who experienced abuse in childhood was diagnosed with migraine, compared with 9 percent of respondents who did not experience physical abuse in childhood.
The researchers then looked at a number of factors that could cause the link between violence and migraine, including “the condition of childhood that bad”, such as parents who are unemployed, drunks and drug use as well as income and education levels, lifestyle, stress level and physical and mental health problems respondents themselves. Many of the factors associated with the risk of migraine in adulthood, and help explain a number of links between physical abuse with migraine,
In a study in Taiwan, led by Dr.. Jong-Ling Fuh, of Taipei Veterans General Hospital, the researchers evaluated the symptoms of headache and a history of torture on nearly 4,000 children aged 13 to 15 years. Based on a standard questionnaire, the researchers diagnosed 23 percent of the teenagers suffer from migraines or “probable” migraine. While 24 percent of teens said they had beaten by a family member.
The researchers found that 30 percent of teens who reported violence experienced migraine symptoms, compared with 21 percent of teens without violence. Headache was diagnosed in 28 percent of teens who said they “rarely” hit and 38 percent of those who said they “sometimes or often experienced violence”.
Fuller-Thomson stated that physical violence “just one of many factors” that may be associated with the risk of migraine. “I do not want people with a history of violence think that they would suffer from migraines,” he said. However, the future is important to try to uncover the reasons for the association between physical abuse with migraine, Fuller-Thomson said. “If we know the mechanism, it may be taken,” he said.
Migraine is often difficult to distinguish from other types of headaches. Headaches due to sinus problems or neck muscle tension have symptoms similar to migraine symptoms. Migraine can occur with other illnesses such as asthma and depression. A very serious disease, such as tumors or infections, can also cause migraine-like symptoms. But this incident is very rare.
Migraine is divided into two major golongon of ordinary migraine or migraine without aura. Most migraine sufferers get into this type. Migraines are usually marked by throbbing head pain on one side with moderate to severe intensity and worsened during the activity.
Migraines are also accompanied by nausea, vomiting, sensitivity to light, sound, and smell. Headache will be cured within 4 to 72 hours, even if not treated. Classical migraine or migraine with aura is usually preceded by a symptom called an aura, which occurs in 30 minutes before a migraine arises. Classical migraine is 30 percent of all migraine.
