The anti-aging Botox has long been considered a miracle of attempts to turn back the hands of time and keep well executed announced looking young faces. Recently it was discovered that the treatment can cure excessive sweating. Now it seems that Botox can also be a useful ally in combating chronic headaches, as demonstrated by the recent regulatory approval for the treatment of disease in the United Kingdom by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Agency.
Little is known about the cause of migraine, but the effects are well documented and are well aware of the disease in question. Throbbing pain on one side of the head for long periods are often accompanied by nausea and acute sensitivity to light. Transcending gender, age and race have headaches more often than you might think, and are estimated to be 20% of women and 6% of men in the end affect their lives.
The available treatments for the condition but these are often ineffective. Furthermore, the constant use of painkillers can actually worsen the headache.
Botox migraine new treatment that -?
The good news for migraine patients, is that recent medical studies, with Allergan, the California based manufacturer and patent holder of Botox, Have shown conclusively that Botox can help those affected in a significant reduction in the number and severity of attacks by headache experts.
Clinical studies have been reported during a year more than 1384 adult patients with acute headache, 15 or more days a month before trial, at least half could be classified as migraines.
A group of patients received regular injections of Botox in the head and neck, while the other group a placebo was injected. From the 56th week of study for approximately 70% of those treated with Botox suffers only half or less the number of> Days of migraine, have had some before the study. A significant improvement was found in the quality of life scores in the Botox group compared to those treated with placebo.
In a press release on the website of Allergan, Professor Peter Goodsby UCL Institute of Neurology says: "Botox treatment has been shown that patients of headache / migraine, for power can bring the importance of frequency. Patients with chronic migraine have commonlong-sought evidence-based approaches and this announcement provides a new option. "
Meanwhile, Thomas, Chief Executive of Migraine Trust, commented, Wendy, chronic migraine is currently being researched, under-diagnosed and treated ... We look forward to new therapies, especially for drugs to prevent this potentially debilitating disease. "
These clinical development and approval of treatment with MHPRA offer new hope for all people affected by pain and misery of chronic migraine. In the U.S., where Botox is currently used to treat cramps and a host of other conditions, the Federal Food and Drug Administration sees the crowd to follow at a later time when it approved this month its use for the treatment of 'migraine.
The treatment of migraine properties of Botox were discovered by accident when it was discovered that patients undergoing surgery Botox for anti-aging cosmetic reasons had to suffer were significantly less headaches, as they were before. Clinical research on the theory and application of this started back in 1999.
But the real question is what will be the next Botox treatment?
