How can I help my sister with a migraine?

Question:

The poor girl's face is swolen and she keeps throwing up? She took aspirin but it's not helping. Thanks.

Answers:
I don't get them very often but when I do it is awful. my husband gives me Excedrin Migraine and it is wonderful. I love the stuff. And it works fast for me so maybe you could try that. They do say that caffeine helps migraines also, and the excedrine migraine has that in it. Good luck to you and I hope that she gets to feeling better very soon. :O)

Don't eat too much sweet and salty
drink more water
get out for fresh air
apply ice packs
if its not work TAKE ADVIL and rest

I'm certainly not a doctor but my first suggestion would be give her a cold pack or ice to put on her head it helps me. Then make her lay down in a very dark room with no noise of any kind. If this does not help her after a half hour or so then I suggest getting her to a doctor immediately. I have never heard of the face swelling due to a migraine and I have had them all of my life.

TAKE HER TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM!

If she has a migraine the best thing for her to do is go into a room lie down with a either a warm or cold washcloth on her head make it as dark and as quiet as possible and let her sleep it off. If she gets them often I would see a Dr. about getting a rx for Immitrex

You should probably take her to a doctor. If she gets bad migraines, she may need prescription medications.
Also, you say her face is swollen.that sounds kind of serious. That doesn't sound like something that normally happens with migraines. She should probably see a doctor right away! I could be an emergency.

If her migraine is that bad, then she should probably go to the emergency room and/or go to her doctor. If her face is swollen, chances are she may have a sinus infection. Faces do not swell from a Migraine alone. She is going to need some medication for the nausea and vomiting as well as something to ease the Migraine itself. Good luck. Hope she feels better real soon.

Migraine + Vomiting -> you should take her to an emergency department. If your family doctor has a small treatment room sometimes they will see emergencies and deal with this sort of thing, but usually the vomiting makes it hard for you to give her any sort of medicine at home.

Call an ambulance and get her to a hospital (especially if the face swelling is interfereing with her breathing!)

Do you know anything about acupressure massage?

Ok my brother have a migrane and i help him always witht he scalp massage and the pressure point if you want i can till you where are the pressure points in the head they give much relife when you do pressure over them.
you have to apply your thump over those points and start to gently push the points are 2 infront side of the head just over the eyes end and 2 in the barillel at the back head you can see a diagram for them at the net if you search over the name(pressure point)and you can do also some massages for the neck and up shoulder

take her to the hospital or her doctor

The swollen face is a sure sign of an allergic reaction. I would take her to the emergency room. Especially since she can't hold down any meds.

How can I help my sister with a migraine?

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