Headaches in pregnancy

Headaches during pregnancy in women with a prior history of menstrual headaches.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the presence of menstrual headaches prior to pregnancy according to the International Headache Society (IHS) classification criteria, 2004, and also study the outcome (frequency and intensity) of these pre-existing headaches during the gestational trimesters. METHOD This study involved 1,101 pregnant women (12 to 45 years old). A semi-structured questionnaire was used to...

Safety of triptans for migraine headaches during pregnancy and breastfeeding.

QUESTION A patient who just found out that she is pregnant and suffers from migraine headaches informs me that she has been taking naratriptan. She indicates that she is planning on breastfeeding her baby and might need to continue treatment. How safe are the medications from this class of drugs during pregnancy and breastfeeding? ANSWER Accumulated data suggest that exposure to sumatriptan d...

Emergent headaches during pregnancy: correlation between neurologic examination and neuroimaging.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Emergent evaluation of the pregnant headache patient requires rational selection of acute neuroimaging studies, yet guidelines do not exist. We investigated the demographic and clinical features that are predictive of intracranial pathologic lesions on neuroimaging studies in pregnant women with emergent headaches. MATERIALS AND METHODS We conducted a retrospective revi...

Migraine Headaches in Women

The neurovascular theory does is contrary to the vascular theory and instead suggest the vasodilation is a phenomenon that is a associated with trigeminal nerve axon activation from triggering mechanisms. This then releases neuropeptides such as substance P, neurokinin A, and CGRP (a potent vasodilator) from axon terminals near the meningeal and other blood vessels. This then produces an inflam...

[Headaches in children].