Migraine headaches and vision effects

Migraine headache involves one side of the head. Various symptoms occur before a typical migraine episode. Other symptoms, together known as an aura, occur before a migraine headache or when the headache starts.

One study showed that more than 85 percent of women and 82 percent of men with severe migraines had headache-related disability. Male persons who get migraine required 3.8 bed rest days while females needed 5.6 days.

In children younger than ten years, boys have more migraines than girls. But after puberty starts, migraines headaches are common in females. Rate of migraine in males drops to a low by age of 28-29 years. Migraine occurrence among females increases sharply till 40 years and then declines gradually. The male peak rate is slightly less and decreases over a broader age range

The age when migraine headache with aura begins appears to peak at or before four to five years, while the highest rate of migraine without aura occurs at age from ten to eleven years

Migraine is a chronic or long term condition, although long remissions are common. One study showed that 62 percent of young adults were free of migraine headaches for more than two years but only 40 percent continued to be free of them after thirty years. The severity and frequency of attacks tend to lessen with age. After 15 years, 30 percent of men and 40 percent of women no longer have migraine attacks.

Causes:

The following are the migraines and vision causes:

Family history
Too much or too little sleep.
Food and food additives- alcohol, caffeine, chocolate, and artificial sweeteners, monosodium glutamate, citrus fruits, meats with nitrites, salt.
Exposure to bright or fluorescent lightning
Weather changes causes migraines headaches.
Motion sickness.
Cold stimulus.

Symptoms:

Sensitivity to light, sound and smell is the common symptom.
The person will fatigue easily.
Person will be urinating more and in larger amounts.
Soreness and stiffness of neck muscles.
Constipation or diarrhea is also one of the symptom.

Treatment:

Migraineurs should avoid dietary triggers of migraine. They should exercise and sleep as needed and take medications as prescribed. Most migraineurs benefit from some form of therapy.

After making the diagnosis, the doctor should provide counseling about treatments that do not include taking drugs, for example, regular rest, good sleep and exercises

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