Fluids Hypertension Syndromes: Migraines, Headaches, Normal ...

Fluids Hypertension Syndromes – Dr. Leonardo Izecksohn – page 118
We had 273 patients who mentioned regular use of coffee, mate or tea. They were 185 women and 88
men, with average age of 41.9 years. We did not make statistics on decaffeinated coffee, because there
were no one of these between our patients. We paid no attention on the relevant toxic effect of Theobromine,
and we did not ask to our patients about their chocolate consumption. Now it is too late for
this statistic.
The 273 patients who use Coffee, mate or tea complained about:
• 132 patients (42.4%) wide frontal migraines;
• 114 patients (41.8%) worsened their aches at morning;
• 74 patients (27.1%) with tearfulness and Rhinitis with coryza (rhinorrhea);
• 72 patients (26.4%) with temporal or head-top (vertex) migraines;
• 63 patients (23.1%) with eye’s itching or Blepharitis;
• 59 patients (21.6%) with occipital migraines;
• 54 patients (19.8%) with ocular aches;
• 36 women (19.5% out of the 185 women) worsened during the menstrual cycle;
• 47 patients (17.2%) with eyes redness;
• 38 patients (13.9%) with photophobia;
• 28 patients (10.3%) with nausea and retching or vomits;
• 25 patients (9.2%) with eyelids edema;
• 24 patients (8.8%) with Chronic cough without any pulmonary lesion.
• 23 patients (8.4%) with dizziness – vertigo;
• 18 patients (6.6%) suffering from sneezing;
And other signs and symptoms less frequent.
Only 13 patients (4.8%) did not complained about migraines or related signs or symptoms.
Caffeine and theobromine when ingested in small doses as a teacup once a day, in few minutes increase
the arterial pressure (and the humor) and reduce the Migraines. After some hours, there is a rebound
effect, raising the intraocular, Cerebrospinal or inner ears fluids’ pressures, and causing Migraines.
We plenty verified that the affirmative “Three 8 oz. (3 x 8 x 31.1 grams = 746.4 grams) cups of coffee
(250 milligrams of caffeine) per day is considered an average or moderate amount of caffeine”, and
complemented with “Moderate caffeine intake, however, is not associated with any health risk”,
(McGee, W.), is wrong for the Brazilian population. Is it true for any population?
Caffeine and Rhinitis: We had a healthy patient with 32-year-old, man, with Myopia, who swallowed
Guaraná (Paullinia cupana) tablets, 1,000 mg everyday, which contains 37.3 mg of Caffeine
(3.73%), (Guaranine), more Theophiline, Theobromine, etc, which are caffeine derivatives. He did so
in order to be able to study daily until midnight. After one month with this daily Guaraná tablets, he
began to present “chronic Allergic Rhinitis”, and after two months he presented on direct ophthalmoscopy
the Optic Nerve’s borders edemas, of 0.5 diopter in the Right Eye and 0.75 diopter in the Left
Eye, which is the signal of the Cerebrospinal Fluid Hypertension Syndrome. He became better from his
symptoms stopping all caffeine tablets. The Optic Nerve’s borders edemas will take months or years to
disappear.
Recently we have examined patients with many signs and symptoms of the Fluids Hypertension Syndromes
that daily drank natural fruits juices prepared together with high doses of Guaraná, and they
call this a “juice bomb”. The most popular juice bomb on Brazil is “Açaí with Guaraná”. It is delicious.
We had sucking infants with the rubbing eyes signal, caused by their mothers daily drinking caffeinated
coffee and colas. All of them cured after their mothers stopped to give caffeine with their breast
milk. The infants did not need any medication.
We suppose two pathologies for this eyes rubbing:
a- The intraocular pressure rise caused by the caffeine, which caused eyes sores and rubbing.
b- The beginning of the Keratoconus caused by the keratinocites being killed by the caffeine: the