Particular food and intense aromas can trigger a migraine.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nWhat Is a Migraine?<\/b><\/h2>\n
\n1. A migraine is a common headache disorder characterized by recurring bouts of head pain.<\/b><\/h3>\n
(WHO)<\/span><\/p>\nMigraine is a recurrent, often life-long, and disabling disease. According to the <\/span>migraine statistics worldwide<\/span>, migraine is the sixth most disabling disease in the world, together with dementia and acute psychosis, and it\u2019s more disabling than blindness or paraplegia.<\/span><\/p>\n2. Migraines cause problems for the entire family of the affected person.<\/b><\/h3>\n
(Medscape)<\/span><\/p>\nThe burden of migraines spreads on the patients, their families, colleagues, and healthcare as a whole. Migraines cause stress even outside of the attacks. Furthermore, one-third of spouses of patients with episodic migraines and one-half of spouses of those who suffer from a chronic migraine avoid the affected person because of their condition.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nDue to the migraine, the affected person is more demanding of children as well, leading to the assumption that people with migraines would be better parents without it, according to the recent <\/span>migraine stats<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n3. The migraine development process has four stages.<\/b><\/h3>\n
(American Migraine Foundation)<\/span><\/p>\nThe process of transition from no migraine (first stage) to chronic migraine (fourth stage) consists of the stages of low-frequency episodic migraine and high-frequency episodic migraine. The headache experts define the low frequency as less than ten headache days per month.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nHigh-rate migraine lasts for 10\u201314 days per month, and the chronic migraine lasts for 15 or more days per month. Between 2% and 3% of people with episodic migraines transition to chronic migraines every year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n4. Chronic migraine affects approximately 1% of the world\u2019s population.<\/b><\/h3>\n
(International Headache Society)<\/span><\/p>\nChronic migraine is one of the common <\/span>migraine types<\/span>. As stated above, the condition is diagnosed when a person has at least eight days a month with typical <\/span>migraine headache symptoms<\/span>, <\/span>or more than 15 headache days for more than three months.<\/span><\/p>\n5. People with migraines are often stigmatized.<\/b><\/h3>\n
(Medscape)<\/span><\/p>\nSince migraine is sometimes associated with psychiatric and psychological disorders, it\u2019s often wrongly considered as a mental condition. Regardless of its devastating symptoms, the affected people usually appear normal. Moreover, there are no specific instrumental or blood tests for migraines. In line with this, migraine patients often have to prove that they have a disease, which is a source of additional stress for them.<\/span><\/p>\nTypes of Headaches<\/b><\/h2>\n