Migraine as a Major Health Problem
A migraine is recurrent attacks of headache widely varying in intensity, frequency and duration, usually located on one side of the head, usually associated with nausea and vomiting, also bothered by light and noise, leading to the isolation of the person.
It is a chronic and episodic manifesting in attacks between which the patient is asymptomatic. The start in the first two decades of life, their frequency being variable, although the average of a migraine type varies from one crisis every 2 months and a week crisis.
Along with tension headache, accounting for 95 percent of primary headaches, and up to 70% of patients complaining of headache in our consultations.
It is a disease of great impact not only medical but also social and economic development, because of its high prevalence is added, the deterioration in the quality of life of migraine patients and the costs for both health and absenteeism.