How to treat migraine in the elderly How to treat migraine in the elderly?

The elderly can take some oral pain-relieving drugs **, such as ibuprofen and diclofenac sodium sustained-release capsules, which can relieve the symptoms of pain, and can also do transcranial Doppler examination, if there is cerebral vasospasm in the examination, you can take nimodipine orally**, and at the same time, you can also do hot compresses and massages to deal with your usual regular life, do not stay up late and tired, and ensure adequate sleep, which helps to improve and recover.

Migraine is a functional headache, and the cause of migraine in the elderly may be related to their own lifestyle, such as poor rest, fatigue, mental tension or improper diet, which can easily induce migraine attacks. The best way to get a migraine is as follows:

The patient is given an ice pack to constrict the blood vessels in the head and the pain will be reduced. When a migraine attack, it is best for the patient to lie down and sleep, and the symptoms of the migraine will be relieved after rest. Patients can improve the symptoms of migraine through head acupuncture and head massage.

If the migraine is severe, symptomatic oral pain medication may be used to relieve it. If the migraine is mild to moderate, you can take drugs such as aminophenop codeine tablets, ibuprofen sustained-release capsules, analgesic tablets, and indomethacin.

If the migraine attack is severe, the patient can be given oral ergotamine and caffeine to relieve it.

1. Listen lightly**.

Light** has a calming effect and helps relieve migraines.

2. Use ginger to treat headaches.

**There is an old method of migraine, squeeze ginger into ginger juice, apply it to the scalp, massage the scalp with your hands, and then scrape the scalp back and forth with a scraper until it is hot, this method is also very common in Guangdong now.

3. Soak your feet. Middle-aged and elderly friends can soak their feet in warm water at night, which can promote blood circulation throughout the body and prevent the occurrence of headaches.

4. Cold compress and hot compress.

When a headache strikes, you can cover your forehead with a warm or cold pack and massage the blood vessels in your temples to relieve the headache.

5. Ensure sleep.

Non-steroidal painkillers can be taken for symptomatic purposes**Point 1, if the elderly have migraine and there are no contraindications to medication, you can take non-steroidal painkillers for symptoms**, which are good for relieving migraine in the elderly, but pay attention to the adverse reactions of the gastrointestinal tract. If the headache is very severe, you can also take ergot preparations or triptans, which have a relatively quick onset of action. However, if the elderly have severe high blood pressure, these drugs cannot be used**.

Second, migraine in the elderly is usually accompanied by nausea and vomiting, and it is recommended that patients can also use antiemetics for symptomatic treatment**.

The third point is that you must ensure adequate sleep, don't stay up late, and don't have too much mental burden.

If the elderly have migraine, it is necessary to rule out some secondary factors, because the elderly often have hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, these patients are prone to cerebrovascular diseases, such as cerebral infarction, especially patients with large-scale cerebral infarction can have headaches, and patients with cerebral hemorrhage and subarachnoid hemorrhage can also have migraine, if the patient has infection, such as fever, it is also necessary to rule out central nervous system infection.

Therefore, if the elderly have migraine, these secondary factors must be excluded, if the secondary factors are excluded, it is a primary migraine, which can be carried out with some pain-relieving drugs, in addition, patients also need to pay attention to rest, avoid fatigue, avoid emotional tension, etc.

Migraine in the elderly is a headache that occurs in people over the age of 60. The causes may be related to age-related physiological changes, drug use, disease, and other factors. Here are some of the possible causes of migraines in older adults:

2.Medication use: Older people often need to take a variety of medications, some of which may cause headaches, such as antihypertensive drugs, analgesics, etc.

3.Diseases: Older people often suffer from a variety of diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, etc., which can cause headaches.

The best methods of migraine in the elderly include the following:

1.Medications**: Headache symptoms can be relieved with medications such as pain relievers, analgesics, trigeminal nerve blocks, etc.

2.Lifestyle adjustment: The elderly should pay attention to rest, avoid excessive fatigue, maintain a regular work and rest time, and avoid bad habits such as overeating.

3.Physical health care: the elderly should exercise appropriately to maintain good health; Pay attention to cervical spine health care and avoid looking down at your mobile phone or computer for a long time.

4.Psychological**: Migraine in the elderly may be related to psychological factors, such as anxiety, depression, etc., so psychological**, such as relaxation training, cognitive behavior**, etc.

Migraine in the elderly should be targeted according to the recommendations of the doctor. If the headache is severe or lasts for a long time, you should seek medical attention as soon as possible.

Migraine has not been fully figured out so far, but in clinical practice, it is divided into several large parts, the first is drugs, which are often very simple drugs, such as drugs containing acetaminophen, which can be more effective in relieving. However, as the medication is prolonged, the patient's response to the drug will become worse and worse.

Second, some invasive ** can be taken, including vascular ganglion block, such as the sympathetic nerve chain that blocks the neck, as well as some cutaneous nerves in the occipital, frontal, and temporal regions, such as the occipital nerve, auricular temporal nerve or supraorbital nerve, and trochlear nerve, which can also be more effectively relieved.

Thirdly, some drugs of the triptan class have also been developed, such as zolmitriptan nasal spray, and a considerable number of migraines can play a good role in relieving them.

The most typical migraine is in women, and it is often related to the menstrual cycle, which is painful before or during menstruation, and will be relieved after menstruation. All in all, migraine is a type of headache that is more difficult to treat, and there are some ways to do it in clinical practice, but so far, medicine has not been effective in ** this disease.

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Please purchase and use under the guidance of a pharmacist).

Tylenol Tylenol acetamin.

Migraine attacks are common, and in this case, in addition to taking some painkillers** during an acute migraine attack, some preventive measures should be actively taken**. If the patient has a headache attack more than once a week and it severely affects daily life, an adrenergic receptor blocker such as propranolol or toprolol may be considered; calcium antagonists such as flunarizine; antiepileptic drugs such as topopimate; amitriptyline, etc. At the same time, we must pay attention in daily life, do not eat spicy food, can not drink coffee, can not drink tea, can not eat chocolate, can not get cold, maintain a good mood, prevent medication, diet and more conditioning, you can control the headache backlash.