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WHAT IS CATARACT?



CLOUDING OF THE LENS





DAILIES: SAY IT WITH
YOUR EYES!
ARE THERE...
DISCREET MAGNIFIERS?



YES,  SUCH AS EASYPOCKET



YOU ONLY HAVE  2 EYES:

CHECK YEARLY !

SEE CLEARLY  !

WHY DO YOU REGULAR NEED
EYE EXAMINATION WHEN YOU
HAVE GLAUCOMA? 



YOU DON'T FEEL ANYTHING
BUT YOUR EYE CAN GET BLIND
SLOWLY
WHEN THE EYE PRESSURE
IS TO HIGH!




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METAMORPHOSIS
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THIS MAY INDICATE AGE
RELATED MACULA
DEGENERATION
"suddenly occuring headache"
MIGRAINE
 
WHAT
 
Everybody's got a headache sometimes. Too short nights, to many spirits, hypertension, injuries to the cervical vertebrae ("osteoarthritis")..... are all reasons to walk around with a sore head.
But migraine is different. That's severe headaches (usually one side of the head), which worsens with exercise and often (but not always) accompanied by nausea (sometimes really vomiting) and sensitivity to light and noise. Moreover, it comes back regularly. You feel it coming governed by prior pallor and visual hallucinations: sawtooth-shaped silver flashes, which gradually increase (eye migraine). Sometimes the earlier meandering bands, which can flicker and sometimes take all the colors of the rainbow. Close your eyes does not help because it occurs in the brains hallucination! These signs are called "aura". If there's failure phenomena, speaks of "migraine accompagnée": loss of vision / / tingling around the mouth (very typical!) And hands ("sleeping hands") and even paralysis of the hand / double vision / / difficulty the right words (aphasia) / not hearing along a side. How scary and painful migraine attack is, it rarely leaves permanent injuries after. Very exceptionally, there may be a migraine-stroke: the extreme and prolonged squeezing the blood vessels, an area in the brains finally fall! With modern medicine it almost never occur ! 12% of people with migraine get, especially between the ages of 30 to 50 years. 3 times more women suffer from migraines.
 
 CAUSE

The base of migraine is under more serotonin. This substance constricts blood vessels. For that reason the energy substances don't get enough in the brains. This leads to the mentioned precursors of migraine. A list of serotonin-leavers is never complete: chocolate, coffee, tobacco, cola, energy drinks (eg red bull), menthol sweets (eg Vicks), alcohol, herring, strong cheese, strong light (sun glasses can help !), loud noise, peanut or pistachio nuts, stress and extreme fatigue, weather changes, skipping meals, heavy sports load, concussion, prolonged sunbathing or sauna, changes in lifestyle (over the weekend for example: caffeine loss / skip a meal morning). When serotonin constricts the vessels, the brains react and there will be an increased blood flow. Blood vessels inside and outside the skull are going to stretch and thus every pulse rumbles through the head. Fortunately the cerebral bloodvessels not always react  (so it can stay  to be omens!) And it isn't so fierce by everyone. Here is a piece of heritability (12% of the population suffers from migraine!- as one of your parents have it, you also have 50% chance to have it!) And hormonal factors (3 times more women suffer from migraines, especially during menstrual periods, even the pill can trigger seizures). With aging, migraine can sometimes improve. If you do everything in moderation, can you ever afford some coffee and chocolate!
 
DO I HAVE MIGRAINE ?
 
The International Headache Society has a number of criteria that allows to determine
 if you have migraine headaches or other types that can be distinguished:
     
* Migraine without aura:
- At least 5 attacks between 4 hours and last for three days
- The headache shows at least two of the following characteristics: unilateral, throbbing and moderate to severe pain that worsens with physical exertion, so you have to slow down. The headache is accompanied with nausea and vomiting and sensitivity to light and sound
- The headache is not caused by another physical problem
 
* Migraine with aura:
- At least 2 attacks
- The aura shows at least two of the following characteristics:
          
-It starts gradually and she leaves no residual lesions after
          
-It takes less than 60 minutes
          
-They can start within an hour followed by headache. This can also start
            
simultaneously with the aura or before the aura begins!
 
TREATMENT (via GP or neurologist)
 
When an attack occurs, a rapid response is important. A few hours rest in a quiet dark room, is a part of the cure with cold compresses on the forehead (effort, sound and light is making everything worse!). Then you also have pain killers: One gram of aspirin (rather a stomach-sparing acenterine, Aspégic or aspirin in effervescent tablets) and / or one gram of acetaminophen (more than three pills a day of this product over several years can damage the kidneys) or relatives. Sometimes anti-inflammatory agents such as Brufen or Apranax better help than paracetamol! If more are required, combinations with codeine or caffeine (eg Perdolan or Migraine Kranit) better help. The tendency to vomit must be stopped: eg with or motillium Primperan (best suppositories, otherwise the medication is vomited before they can affect). Migpriv is a combination of aspirin and an anti-emetic, which regularly scores! If this is failing, or the attakcs repeats themself too frequent then a specific migraine treatment is required: the doctor will prescribe ergotamine, such as Cafergot or Diergo or the newer but more expensive triptans (works on serotonin receptors in the arteries!) As in Imitrex, Zomig oral Naramig he will prescribe for their vasoconstrictor effects. Swallow at the first signs a tablet or an Imitrex subcutaneous injection. If response is inadequate, take a half hour later half a tablet. Stop with ergotamine in six milligrams per crisis (purple hands and cold feet are also signs that too much was used). By prolonged and excessive use, there is potential for addiction, ... headache! Never take more than 1 time a week ergotamine! The headache also occurs with a sudden stop. The expensive Imitrex and Zomig is more efficient and safer than oral ergotamine! Imitrex is now refundable prescribed by a neurologist, in the case of a persistent migraine unresponsive to other forms of therapy.
 
PREVENTION
 
Frequent attacks (more than 2 per month) can also think of drug prevention, which helps in 60% of the cases (first choice product Inderal, cfr infra). It may last for one month so the effect is achieved. Best the cure is 6 months sustained, then the dose can usually be reduced: to counter serotonin as trigger, Sandomigran, Deseril and Nocertone qualifies. Beta blockers (especially Inderal), help with stress (at least if blood pressure is not too low). Tranquilizers may also help here. Calcium antagonists such as Isoptin and Sibelium are instructed to stretch the blood vessels within the limits and they are particularly useful for prolonged symptoms. Relaxation techniques (yoga) and fresh air blows succeed to extend the period between the attacks, seen stress is quite often at the origin of migraine! If bright light is expierenced as a nuisance, you can wear sunglasses (possibly even a constant tranquility glasses (ie glasses + / - with no compensation but staining glass). A hot shower can relax! Despite all the possibilities, there is no surefire treatment for everyone. The environment must be patient and understanding. A reassurance that migraine is certainly quite a benign form of headache, which rarely has lasting effects.

 
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