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

Fluids Hypertension Syndromes – Dr. Leonardo Izecksohn – page 310
We received a patient with 57-year-old, almost entirely Black, with only one great-grandmother Indian.
She had six children. She was 1.49 meters (4 feet and 11 inches) tall, weighing 65 kilograms (143
pounds). She was medicating and had been submitted to Laser Iridotomy for Closed-Angle Glaucoma.
Her visual fields 1 st . exam resulted with “Peripheral defects at all visual quadrants in both eyes”. After
one year, similar visual fields exam showed “Concentric defects all over the visual fields, with threatening
of the central visual area.” She was complaining of daily strong migraines on the wide frontal,
ethmoid and occipital areas; eyes aches, tearfulness, redness and itching; chronic sneezing and dry
cough. She was drinker of coffee 500 milliliters (1 pint), caffeinated soft drinks 300 milliliters (10 fluid
ounces) and water 1,500 milliliters (3 pints) daily. Nobody told her that these drinks worsen the Glaucoma
and the Migraines. On the ophthalmological exam, she presented intraocular pressures of 22
mmHg in both eyes (a little high) and shallow anterior chambers. We taught her to stop all coffee and
soft drinks, to shorten the daily water to the thirst needs, to keep the eye drops medications and prescribed
her Acetazolamide 125 mg once daily.
After two months she came all better, without any of those symptoms, seeing better, but still presenting
intraocular pressures of 21 and 18 mmHg right and left eyes, with the same shallow anterior chambers.
This signifies that she saved her both eye’s vision and cured her migraines, which is very good,
but her eye drops treatment must endure for life.
XVIII- z -Therapeutic Difficulties: We found difficulties about convincing some patients that their
pleasant drinks are worsening their health. Many patients believe that the pseudo-scientific expressions
that they repeatedly hear are true, as:
- “Green tea is good to your health” (or skin, or hair, or other);
- “Drinking a cup of wine daily is good to your heart”;
- “Drinking more than 2 liters (half gallon) of water daily is good to your kidneys” (or more than 20
other health motives);
- “Coffee is good to …”(more than 10 health motives);
- “Drink coffee (or any caffeinated drink) and feel good”(or any good feeling); and so on.
- “Dark chocolate is very good to your health”.
All manufacturers only pay advertisements to say good things about their merchandises, even when
they are not entirely true and hide something bad. People repeatedly hearing the advertisements do believe
in them. Advertisement indeed works.
The industries of cola drinks, wine, beer, coffee, teas, chocolate and other industries also pay for
medical papers spread dubious health benefits concerning their merchandises, included in medical reports.
Therefore, even medical doctors and nutritionists believe them, and repeat them as parrots to
their patients.
No one pays for spreading that to the health benefit it is necessary to shorten or to stop the use of any
drink, because any drinks reduction can affect the profits of that industry.
XVIII- aa -When the headache continues: With the above treatment, whether the headaches or variants
persist after one week of withdrawal, it is necessary to search for other etiologies with medical exams.
In this case, these are not “primary” migraines: they are headaches secondary to some sickness
which needs the respective diagnose and therapy.
XVIII- bb -Consequences of our treatment:
1- Useless of surgeries and therapies: The improvement of all patient’s signs and symptoms with the
therapy turns useless most surgeries of these sicknesses, as Optic Nerve’s sheath fenestration (decompression),
Macular photodynamic therapy, Retinal Photocoagulation, Vitrectomy, most glaucoma surgeries,
Trigeminal Nerve destruction, “allergic” Rhinitis and Sinusitis surgeries, Orthopedic cervical
and lumbar inter-vertebral decompression, and others. Consequently, the patient avoids sufferings, expenses
and collateral effects.