Rainy season and headaches

The rainy season is coming soon this year. It’s also a bad time for people with migraines and other types of headaches. It has been more than 10 years since Botox has been used to treat migraine in the United States. We have been using Botox for many years to treat headaches, but Botox may be the second choice in cases where other methods are not effective enough or side effects prevent us from taking existing medicines.

As we’ve mentioned several times before, why Botox is effective for headaches and why changes in barometric pressure, such as the rainy season, are discovered in 2021, Looking back at the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, you can understand to some extent. Dr. Davis and colleagues at the University of California have discovered that blood vessels on the surface of the brain have receptors for spicy sensation and pain (called TRPV1). It is now also known that this receptor is antagonized by Clostridium botulinum toxin (Botox).

There are also receptors in the brain that are sensitive to changes in barometric pressure. It can be said that the involvement of these factors in the development of headache has expanded the treatment options for headache by adding to the previous theories such as contraction and dilation of blood vessels and serotonin levels in the brain.

Our clinic has been treating headaches with Botox for over 10 years in line with US FDA protocols and guidelines.

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