The migraine, also called headache, is characterized by strong, palpitating pains and in only one side of the head, sometimes accompanied of other symptoms like nauseas and vomitings, distortion of the vision, vertigo and hypersensitivity to light; impeding the patient to fulfill his/her daily activities and to self-seclude, sometimes for many days. A certain percentage has family records of migraine. The migraines affect the 17% of the population (including children and teenagers), mainly women, between 10 and 50 years old, generally it’s started before 30 years old. They are distinguished two varieties or types of migraine: migraine with aura and without aura.

Causes of the migraine
One of the main causes of the migraine are the blows of head received mainly in the childhood (falls from the bed, the stairs, etc.), some in the adolescence, maturity or old age. They are blows that normally don’t affect the life of the people in that moment and that’s why they stop go through for many years, some check the blow in the head and avoid the troubles in the future (being this the most recommendable for these patients). There are blows so strong that faint the people and can produce breakages of head, these are the blows that you have to check with the specialist physician each year after the blow. The blows before 3 years old, are very important, because mainly are very strong and they can cause migraine in the future, it’s good to ask the mother how was it and where and which part of the head affect. The second principal cause of the migraine is generated by hepatic troubles (fat liver and/or gallstones) generating in the people vomitings and nauseas. The liver has a very strong dependence with the brain in your arterial part and by its nervous tissue, that any blow in the head in the long run affects the liver. These same entwinements occur between the brain and the eye (ocular nerves) that then generate headaches in the ocular part.
The blows of head and the hepatic troubles on the whole cause headaches and migraine. The blows of head without breakage can generate migraine 10 – 20 years after the problem and don’t remember even of the blows of head that generate them (or don’t know because it was in your childhood). On the other hand the blows of head very strong which provoke faints and breakages of head can produce migraine after the year (or two or three, depends on the intensity of the blow or the fracture) and that can be easily identified because it’s associated to the place of the blow. The conjunction of these two symptoms, blows of head and hepatic troubles generates migraine from now on, unleashed by stress, by foods or by any other thing. The changes affect the blood flow of the brain, the nervous routs and the surrounding membranes. In general the migraine’s attacks can be unleashed by:
· Allergic reactions
· Brilliant lights
· Strong noises
· Mental or physical stress
· Changes in the rhythm of the dream
· Deficiency of serotonin
· Nicotine poisoning or exposure to the smoke of the cigarette
· Muscular Tension extended
· Low levels of magnesium
· Lack of sleep
· Omission of foods
· Consume of alcohol
· Intense Smells
· Changes of time
· Hormonal Variations (menstrual periods, ovulation, use of contraceptive pills)
The foods that can unleash the migraine are:
· Foods which contain the amino acid tyramine (red wines, cured meats, beer, cabbage, eggplant, cured cheese, smoked fish, potato, raspberry, red prune, tomato, chicken livers, yeast, figs and some legumes.
· Chocolates
· Walnuts and peanut butter
· Fruits (avocado pear, banana, citric fruits)
· Onions
· Daily Products
· Foods fried in general
· Baked foods
· Meats that contain nitrates (bacon, hot dogs, salami, cured meats)
· Foods that contain glutamate monosodium.
· Any food processed, fermented, pickled or marinated.

From the point of view psychological, people with anguish can have migraine. The accumulated anguish in the organism of a patient with migraine is one of the great unleashing of the headaches and possibly it’s a psychological answer to the sensation of being directed, not having prominence, or to do activities or accept situations with which we are not agreed.

 

Diagnosis

The migraine can diagnose through a clinic history of the patient. Many patients do laboratory tests and studies of images, like the computerized tomography or the magnetic resonance, that are not useful to identify the disease. However, for some patients, these tests can be necessary to rule out the presence of a cerebral tumor or other structural causes of migraine.