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Migraine/Headaches
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| 6/24/2003 |
Pub Med abstracts
We describe the case of a female patient affected by
migraine and untreated adult celiac disease who presented with a state of acute
migraine accompanied by multiple neurological deficits, including transient
cortical blindness with ischemic CT and MRI alterations, and hypocoagulation due
to factor VII deficiency. There was a prompt response to cortisone therapy
followed by a state of complete well-being, which also led to the disappearance
of migraine attacks after five years of dietary treatment alone.
Migraine,
cortical blindness, multiple cerebral infarctions and hypocoagulopathy in celiac
disease. PMID: 12827546 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=12827546
During the 6 months of gluten free diet, one of the four patients had no
migraine attacks, and the remaining three patients experienced an improvement in
frequency, duration, and intensity of migraine. Single photon emission CT
studies showed a regional baseline reduction in brain tracer uptake in all four
patients. Such reduction in uptake completely resolved at follow-up. Our results
suggest that a significant proportion of patients with migraine may have CD, and
that a gluten free diet may lead to a improvement in the migraine in these
patients.
Association between migraine and Celiac disease: results from a
preliminary case-control and therapeutic study. PMID: 12650798 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=12650798
In our patient, treatment of coeliac disease coincided with total
disappearance of severe migraine attacks. Moreover, the coeliac disease was
first revealed during the evaluation of a migraine with aura.
Migraine and
coeliac disease PMID: 11398309 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=11398309
Headache is the commonest clinical symptom during childhood and
adolescence, from a neurologist's point of view. The pathophysiology of migraine
and tension headache involve personality and biochemical factors, such as
serotonin, which are also common in coeliac disease.
The prevalence of
headache in a population of patients with coeliac disease PMID: 11333382 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=11333382
The commonest foods causing reactions were wheat (78%), orange (65%),
eggs (45%), tea and coffee (40% each), chocolate and milk (37%) each), beef
(35%), and corn, cane sugar, and yeast (33% each). When an average of ten common
foods were avoided there was a dramatic fall in the number of headaches per
month, 85% of patients becoming headache-free.
Food allergies and migraine.
PMID: 87628 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=87628
The occurrence of headache, dysthymia and signs of peripheral neuropathy
was significantly higher in patients with celiac disease than in control
subjects. Adherence to a strict gluten-free diet was associated with a
significant reduction of headache, dysthymia, cramps and weakness, but did not
modify the occurrence of paresthesia or hyporeflexia. Neurological signs and
symptoms are associated with celiac disease and can be ameliorated by a
gluten-free diet.
Clinical and neurological abnormalities in adult celiac
disease. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=14716525
PMID: 14716525
We report on a patient with headache since 3 years of age
in which the headache the only manifestation of CD. The diagnosis of CD was made
at 11 years, when he came at our observation for episodes of headache. Also the
older sister is found affected by CD. After three months of gluten free diet, it
was obtained the complete resolution of the headache. Also if the pathogenesis
of the headache in patient with CD is unknown we think that a autoimmune,
vascular or blood flow mechanism could be ipotizeable.
Headache as atypical
presentation of celiac disease: report of a clinical case http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=11594166
PMID: 11594166
All experienced episodic headache, six had unsteadiness,
and four had gait ataxia. MRI abnormalities varied from confluent areas of high
signal throughout the white matter to foci of high signal scattered in both
hemispheres. Symptomatic response to gluten-free diet was seen in nine
patients.
Headache and CNS white matter abnormalities associated with gluten
sensitivity http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=11171906
. PMID: 11171906
PMID:11171908
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