| Conventional medication treatments for | | | | Diet will come under a lot of scrutiny and |
| migraine are often expensive, have nasty side | | | | every migraineur (migraine sufferer) will |
| effects and frequently are ineffective. This | | | | have identified certain foods which seem to |
| may mean you will have to seek alternative | | | | bring on an attack. Explaining to your boss |
| remedies for your migraine - very often these | | | | that you are a migraineur will also help as |
| are more effective in allowing you to resume | | | | you will need more breaks. Time lost here |
| your normal daily activity. | | | | will be nothing to the time you have to take |
| | | | off if you actually get an attack. Look at |
| No one knows for certain what causes | | | | your posture and your seating arrangements at |
| migraine. The best treatment for migraine is | | | | the computer as tightening neck muscles and |
| to prevent it. The aim of a preventive | | | | slouching can bring on an attack. |
| treatment for migraine is to prevent or | | | | |
| reduce the frequency of new migraine attacks | | | | The herb feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium) has |
| from occurring. Headaches manifest themselves | | | | been used for centuries as a folk remedy for |
| in a variety of ways depending on a person's | | | | headache, migraine, arthritis, pain, and |
| stress level, physiology, diet and even | | | | fever in Europe. Natural remedies for |
| immune responses. | | | | migraine treatment generally can be grouped |
| | | | into two distinct areas of opportunity, these |
| The conventional treatment for migraine is | | | | being manual therapies such as hypnosis, |
| painkillers, the best known ones which are | | | | meditation , acupuncture , shiatsu or herbal |
| Sumatripan or Imitrex. Drug treatment for | | | | remedies using herbs with specific nutrients |
| migraine is classified as abortive (aimed at | | | | to treat migraine. |
| relieving acute attacks) and prophylactic | | | | |
| (aimed at preventing episodic migraine from | | | | Magnesium, a mineral found in soybeans, whole |
| becoming recurrent and preventing recurrences | | | | grains, nuts, seeds, vegetables and fish, is |
| in patients with chronic migraine). | | | | one of the most promising nutrients in |
| Treatment for migraine differs greatly, it | | | | headache research. American researchers |
| has been found, depending on whether the | | | | suggest that a combination of magnesium |
| prescribing physician is a general | | | | taurate and fish oil may help prevent |
| practitioner or a neurologist. | | | | migraine headaches, based on the ability of |
| | | | both to reduce blood vessel spasms. |
| Some palliative measures have been found to | | | | Butterbur root extract and Vitamin B2 have |
| be helpful when sufferers are undergoing an | | | | also shown promising results. |
| attack. A quiet dark room, sleep and ice on | | | | |
| the forehead are beneficial. Migraineurs | | | | Migraineurs are unhappy taking conventional |
| (migraine sufferers) seem to spend their | | | | medications for a long period because of the |
| lives looking for ways of prevention and very | | | | side effects. Some seek a complete change and |
| often diet is carefully scrutinised. | | | | a herbal remedy could well be the solution. |
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