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

Fluids Hypertension Syndromes – Dr. Leonardo Izecksohn – page 123
Aegidius K and others, studying pre-menopausal women, found relation between occurrence of Migraines
and headaches with their use of estrogen-containing oral contraceptives.
We had many lean women with Fluids Hypertension Syndromes caused by estrogen-containing contraceptives,
as oral as injected ones, but we did not made statistics on this.
Intra-nasal corticosteroids raise the intraocular pressure and cause the respective migraine: “On reviewing
the international data collected in the World Health Organization's global pharmacovigilance
programme... was found 38 case reports of migraine in suspected connection with Intranasal corticosteroids.
These reports came from five countries and concerned six different drugs.” (Pokladnikova J,
and others).
XI- 15) – Excessive computer and TV (Visual and Low illumination strain):
The vision strain with low-illumination causes pupil dilatation and raises the intraocular pressure,
with consequent Ocular Migraines or “Tension type” migraines. At older times, this occurred with
photographers in dark rooms and with needlewomen with deficient illumination. When the patient adds
coffee to stay awake on the computer work, the intraocular pressure will raise more at the following
night.
Nowadays this low illumination strain occurs using dark or photo-chromatic sunglasses, or seeing TV
or computer in a scarcely illuminated room many hours a day, everyday. The sensitivity to light caused
by the rise of intraocular pressure makes pleasant the use of dark glasses. The dark glasses enlarge the
pupil, increasing the intraocular pressure and consequently the light-sensitivity, in a vicious cycle,
causing Migraines and eventually damaging the Optic Nerve and causing Glaucoma.
We collected 57 patients with excessive use of TV or computer. They had average age of 29.3 years.
They were 27 (47.4%) men and 30 (52.6%) women.
These 57 patients with excessive use of TV or Computer complained about:
- 25 patients (43.9%) wide frontal migraines;
- 18 patients (31.6%) with tearfulness and Rhinitis with coryza (rhinorrhea);
- 12 patients (21.1%) with eyes redness;
- 9 patients (15.8%) with eye’s itching or blepharitis;
- 9 patients (15.8%) with ocular aches;
- 8 patients (14%) with temporal or head-top (vertex) migraines;
- 6 patients (10.5%) worsened their aches at morning;
- 3 women (10% out of the 30 women) worsened during the menstrual cycle;
- 4 patients (7%) with photophobia;
- 4 patients (7%) with diffuse migraines;
- 4 patients (7%) with Chronic cough without any pulmonary lesion.
- 3 patients (5.3%) with eyelids edema;
- 2 patients (3.5%) with visual darkness;
- 1 patient (1.8%) with nausea and retching or vomits;
- 1 patient (1.8%) with occipital migraines;
- And other signs and symptoms less frequent.
- Only 4 patients (7%) did not complained about migraines and related signs or symptoms.
In these 57 patients with excessive use of TV or Computer, we found:
- 28 patients (49.1%) presented minimal Optic Nerve’s disks edema;
- 8 patients (14%) presented evident (0.5 diopters) Optic Nerve’s disks edema;
- From these patients with Optic Nerve’s edemas, 4 (7,0% out of 57) presented white sheaths around
the Optic Nerve’s disk vessels.
- 9 patients (15.8%) presented intraocular pressure of 17 mmHg or higher, when examined at the office;
out of these 9 patients,
- Only one patient presented intraocular pressure of 22 mmHg or higher.
- 4 patients (7%) were suspects of Glaucoma;
- 3 patients (5.3%) presented incipient Glaucoma;