Pain is not the only thing that comes with migraine but damage to your brain may also flock with it. Putting this fact forward, researcher unveiled that migraine may lead to the swelling in brain cells, turning it oxygen-starved, which may finally lead to brain damage.
This is quite a serious equation between migraine and brain. Perhaps, this is the reason why these experts have come out suggesting that migraine sufferers should not simply go for pain relief but should prefer drugs that prevents against migraine.
However, interesting thing that came out of this study states that oxygen help reducing this damage, caused by migraine. Here it is important to note that this study dampens the findings of the study, which had recently stated that migraine shields against cognitive decline.
In addition, threat of brain damage is not the only one that has been linked to migraine but the risk of heart attack has also been associated with it. According to a study conducted in 2004, people with migraine are two times more prone to suffer stroke than people with without migraine.
This shows that problem called, migraine is not as little as it seems to be, as the threats associated with it may prove fatal.
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Via: Daily Collegian