The attack is often preceded by prodromes:
Irritability, asthenia, drowsiness, hunger, yawning.
The attack is often preceded by prodromes:
Irritability, asthenia, drowsiness, hunger, yawning.
Migraine headache begins gradually, during the day or at the end of the night, reaches its peak after a few hours and lasts half a day to a few days. Often pulsating, unilateral and rocking, its intensity is moderate to severe.
It often involves posterior pain with associated neck pain, which misleads the diagnosis towards a headache due to cervical arthritis or Arnold’s neuralgia.
It is aggravated by routine physical activities – walking, light, noise and improved by rest in the dark. Nausea and/or vomiting are frequent. In children, the attack is accompanied by pallor, often lasts less than 4 hours and is calmed by sleep.
Migraine Aura
moving, scintillating peripheral scotomas, in the form of dots or lightning, blurred vision, narrowing of the visual field, hemianopsia
language disorder
ascending brachio facio-labial paresthesias