Suggest Treatment For Migraine Headache And Nausea

Posted on Tue, 17 May 2016

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Question : My son is 23 and has had migraine-like headaches and nausea in the mornings off and on for the last two weeks. What are the possible medical scenarios behind these symptoms?

Answered by Dr. V. N. S. Parinam (52 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Migraine likely

Detailed Answer:
Hello,

Your son has likely a migraine headache. Please remember that there are stock triggers that precipitate the migraine attack. Also the migraine attacks are generally grouped. If you stop one episode successfully it will be a migraine free period for long time.

The precipitators are these, you should educate your son:
1) Sleeplessness - Sleep early on time and rise early on time
2) Dehydration - During summers this can be a good reason, have at least a litre of water as soon as he gets up in the morning.
3) Skipping meals - Try to maintain meal time so that the blood sugar levels do not drop down
4) Too much fluctuation in weather temperature is considered a factor

To help reduce the attacks
a) Let him have a good walk / jog every day, this releases pain inhibiting substances in the brain
b) Most migranuers get to know the attack few minutes in advance, let him take a pain killer immediately to stop the attack. Let him carry Over the counter Motrin/Advil/Naproxen all the time.

Hope this info is bit useful to stop attacks. Other things let your doctor investigate and let me know the results as well.

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