Migraine is a common neurological disease. It is characterized by sudden and very severe attacks of pain that periodically recur. The duration of the attack can be up to 72 hours. All that can be thought about when a migraine has arisen is how to relieve the pain and ease the condition. But do not worry about it. There are several very ways to completely eliminate it.
How to relieve pain with pills?
If you want to remove the headache as soon as possible with migraines , it is best to use non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. With weak and rare attacks, analgesics will help:
- Analgin;
- Paracetamol;
- Aspirin;
- Ibuprofen;
- Ketrolak;
- Diclofenac;
- Naproxen.
Before you relieve the pain of migraine with these pills, it is worth eating something, since they negatively affect the stomach. Those who are often concerned about more intense pain, you should choose a combination of drugs, which include caffeine, phenobarbital or codeine. Such medicines include:
- Citramon;
- Pentalgin;
- Ascofen;
- Migrenol;
- Solpadein;
- Caffetin.
In cases where the pains are spasmolytic in nature, you need to choose the drugs containing components against spasms:
- I took it;
- Spazmalgon;
- Spasgan.
The attack is very long and deprives you of the opportunity to lead a normal lifestyle? What then to relieve the headache with migraines? It is best to use triptans . This is not just an "analgesic" medicine. They do not affect the pain directly, they narrow the dilated sosuduses in the shell of the brain, that is, eliminate what causes the appearance of an attack.
The drugs of this group include:
- Sumatriptan;
- Amigrenin;
- Sumygamren;
- Rapimed.
Massage with migraine
If you do not have analgesics? How to relieve the pain with migraine at home? Mass will help. It should be carried out in a well-ventilated room and always with muted light. To do a massage, you need:
- Take a comfortable position and "fix" the head in the forearms.
- Relax and perform stroking movements on the face and in the cervical-collar zone.
- Wide movements of both hands to stroke the head, turning to the neck and shoulders.
- Slowly, but strongly massage your fingers head from the forehead to the nape, and then from the temple to the crown.
- Simultaneously, on both sides, massage the head in the area from the tubercles behind the ears to the occiput.
- Perform stroking movements on the face and in the cervical-collar zone.
Contraindication to such an analgesic massage is only a significant violation of the integrity of the skin on the head or pustular diseases that hit the massaged area.
How to remove pain by popular methods?
Excellent relieve pain with migraines and folk remedies. Coping with this problem green tea (the main thing that it was without additives), as well as the juice of black currant. Quickly and easily you can relieve the pain of migraine, taking such a folk remedy, like an infusion of elder Siberian.
Recipe for infusion
Ingredients:
- dry florets of elderberry - 10 g;
- water - 200 ml.
Preparation and use
Pour the elderberry with boiling water. After 50 minutes strain the mixture. This infusion is taken with honey, 50 ml three times a day.
To combat the attack of migraine, you can use special herbal decoctions.
The recipe for broth
Ingredients:
- peppermint - 5 g;
- oregano - 5 g;
- angustifolia sprout - 5 g;
- water - 300 ml.
Preparation and use
Pour the herbs with boiling water and strain after cooling. Drink this broth you need 200 ml with the appearance of pain.
If migraine, in addition to pain, you are dizzy, drowsy and stuffy in the ears, after taking decoctions and infusions, drink strong sweet tea with lemon. This will help stop the further development of the attack.