Why do not we know a lot about migraine?

Mohamed Ismail – Cairo – Masrawy:

Migraine affects one in five women and ranks second among diseases that hinder normal life, but there is no effective medicine. What distinguishes this disease from others?

The disease is usually classified as "headache", but the usual headaches can be controlled by one or two tablets of a housing containing "paracetamol" while migraine is a headache and sometimes even the patient. The site of "Russia Today".

This is also more prevalent among women than men, with one in five women and one in 15 men.

The strange thing about this disease is that doctors have not yet found clear cause of migraine, which is the result of hormonal changes or abnormal activity in the brain, so no effective treatment to eliminate it.

while American neurologist Harold Wolfe, one of the leading researchers in the field of head pain, distinguishes migraine patients in men and women. "Men do not suffer from migraines other than the effects of fatigue," he said, "women are infected because they do not accept their role in society."

It is also mentioned that migraine is one of the less fortunate diseases of international research and finance: statistics indicate that it remains the least well funded among diseases in medical institutions European.

In the United States, asthma research spent about 13 times more than migraines and spent 50 times more on diabetes than on migraine headaches, although it affects 15% Population.

In addition, weird unemployment episodes also cast a shadow over the economy. A study of the total number of days absent in the UK because of migraines was estimated at about 25 million days a year