BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Vascular Headache, Monosodium Glutamate, Auditory Hallucination
15 Apr 2016
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Muscle band around skull caused by stress treated with a. s. a, acetaminophen, ibuprofen, naproxen. 3 major types: 1) toxic 2) migraine 3) cluster. Migraine is an overused term only a small number of people sufer from them. 18% of women and 6% of men sufer from migraines. Phase 1 vasoconstricion phase 2 vasodilaion. Migraines follow a progression: prodrome phase aura pain postdrome. Tension, lack of/too much sleep, strong smells, pregnancy, etc. Prodrome phase gives a warning 40% experience mood swings. One or two hours before pain phase. Colds are the most common type of infecion outnumbers all others 25 to 1. Some cold medicaions relieve symptoms: doing something makes you feel beter. As we get older we become more immune to viruses. Immune response is too slow and weak to prevent. Body makes large amounts of anibodies only during infecion. Ater each infecion you build up memory cells. Later exposure to the same virus does not make you sick.
