The attack is often preceded by prodromes:
Irritability, asthenia, drowsiness, hunger, yawning.
The attack is often preceded by prodromes:
Irritability, asthenia, drowsiness, hunger, yawning.
Migraine headache begins gradually, during the day or at the end of the night, reaches its peak after a few hours and lasts half a day to a few days. Often pulsating, unilateral and rocking, its intensity is moderate to severe.
It often involves posterior pain with associated neck pain, which misleads the diagnosis towards a headache due to cervical arthritis or Arnold’s neuralgia.
It is aggravated by routine physical activities – walking, light, noise and improved by rest in the dark. Nausea and/or vomiting are frequent. In children, the attack is accompanied by pallor, often lasts less than 4 hours and is calmed by sleep.
moving, scintillating peripheral scotomas, in the form of dots or lightning, blurred vision, narrowing of the visual field, hemianopsia
language disorder
ascending brachio facio-labial paresthesias