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

Fluids Hypertension Syndromes – Dr. Leonardo Izecksohn – page 48
- 74 patients (31.1%) with frontal migraines;
- 68 patients (28.6%) worsened at morning;
- 57 patients (23.9%) with eye redness (eye erythema);
- 34 patients (14.3%) with eyelid edemas;
- 33 patients (13.9%) with occipital migraines;
- 32 patients (13.4%) with photophobia;
- 31 patients (13%) with temporal migraines or at the head-top (vertex);
- 29 patients (12.2%) with ocular migraines;
- 26 patients (10.9%) with Chronic cough without any pulmonary lesion;
- 21 patients (8.8%) suffering from nausea and retching or vomits;
and many other less frequent signs and symptoms.
Some of these patients with itching eyes present conjunctivitis, , as acute as recurrent or chronic ones.
These conjunctivitis can be:
- Infectious, caused by scratching the eyes with the fingers contaminated;
- Papillary, similar to allergic;
- Parasitic, etc.
The eyelids become floppy and swollen. The entirety of floppy, rubbery upper eyelids that easily
everts, associated with chronic papillary conjunctivitis, was denominated as Floppy Eyelid Syndrome.
(Culbertson WW and Ostler HB).
The blepharitis causes the eyelash ptosis, and both are caused by the fingers rubbing the eyelids.
These 238 patients with Blepharitis and Itching eyes presented On their exam:
- 110 patients (46.2%) with minimal Optic Nerve’s borders edema;
- 51 patients (21.4%) with evident Optic Nerve’s borders edema;
- 84 patients (35.3%) presented intraocular pressure of 17 mmHg or more; out of these 84:
- 27 patients (11.3% out of 239 or 32.1% out of 84) presented intraocular pressure of 21 mmHg or
more;
- 43 patients (18.1%) with shallow eye’s anterior chamber;
- 22 patients (9.2%) suspects of glaucoma;
- 23 patients (9.7%) with incipient glaucoma;
- 15 patients (6.3%) with advanced glaucoma.
- Only in 22 patients, (9.2%) we could not find any pathology.
These 238 patients with Blepharitis and Itching eyes had the Etiologies:
- 136 patients (57.1%) drank too much water, with an average of 3.4 liters each day;
- 122 patients (51.3%) drank caffeine, as coffee, mate, tea, or soft drinks daily.
- 80 patients (33.6%) drank caffeinated soft drinks;
- 63 patients (23.5%) drank coffee, mate or tea;
- 47 patients (19.7%) drank beer;
- 12 patients (5%) drank wine;
- 29 patients (12.2%) took medications that raise the fluids pressures;
- 11 patients (4.6%) presented visceral sicknesses;
- And other patients with lesser frequent etiologies.