Migraine on the rise time to create awarness during Migraine on the rise time to create awarness during pregnancy and its medical treatmentand its medical treatment
Migraine headaches result from a combination of blood vessel
enlargement and the release of chemicals from nerve fibers that coil around
these blood vessels. During the headache, an artery enlarges that is located on
the outside of the skull just under the skin of the temple (temporal artery).
This causes a release of chemicals that cause inflammation, pain, and further
enlargement of the artery. A migraine headache causes the sympathetic nervous
system to respond with feelings of nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting. Migraine
headaches have a female predominance with a peak in prevalence in the third and
fourth decades of life. Women of reproductive age are liable to develop their
first migraine while pregnant or exhibit changes in the character, frequency or
severity of their headaches during pregnancy and the puerperium. The purpose of
this Review is to examine the pathophysiology underlying the development of
migraine headaches and the association of this pathophysiology with
pregnancy-related complications. We present the case of a woman with a history
of migraine headaches before pregnancy, whose symptoms progressed during
pregnancy in part because of increasing exposure to narcotic medications.
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