On Medscape:
Migraine Linked to Celiac Disease March 2003
Pub Med abstracts:
Increased risk for coeliac disease in paediatric patients with migraine.
PMID: 18624809 July 2008
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
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
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
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
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
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. 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 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. PMID: 11171906
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