Open AccessManaging migraine in the times of COVID-19 pandemic
Author(s) -
Debashish Chowdhury,
Debabrata Datta
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
annals of indian academy of neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.427
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1998-3549
pISSN - 0972-2327
DOI - 10.4103/aian.aian_296_20
Subject(s) - pandemic , migraine , medicine , isolation (microbiology) , covid-19 , medical emergency , health care , intensive care medicine , psychiatry , virology , disease , bioinformatics , economic growth , pathology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , economics , biology
COVID-19 pandemic is an emerging, rapidly evolving situation. Migraine is one of the commonest and highly disabling chronic neurological diseases in the world. During the pandemic and lockdown, migraine patients are facing an enormous problem in getting optimum care because of difficulty in access, forced social isolation, and encountering a health system that is getting rapidly overwhelmed. It is important that they must be protected by minimizing their visits to the clinics and emergency departments. Paradoxically multiple triggers are in operation which is likely to increase their headache frequency. Hence physicians should be made aware of the new rules of the game in treating migraines during this time of the pandemic so that these patients get optimum treatment and care and don't feel left out. This review tries to answer a series of questions related to managing migraines in the times of COVID-19 pandemic.