ABSTRACT
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, confinement, fear, lifestyle changes, and worldwide health care impacted almost all diseases. Reports from countries outside Latin America revealed differences in migraine patients. In this study, we describe and compare the immediate changes in migraine symptoms associated with COVID-19 quarantine in patients from Argentina, Mexico, and Peru. An online survey was conducted from May to July 2020. The survey was answered by 243 migraine patients, with questions related to sociodemographic data, quarantine conditions, changes in working conditions, physical activity, coffee intake, healthcare access, acute migraine medication use, symptoms of anxiety, depression, and fear of COVID-19. The results show that 48.6% of migraine patients experienced worsened symptoms, 15.6% improved, and 35.8% remained unchanged. Worsening migraine symptoms were associated with staying at home during the lockdown. Intake of analgesics was associated with an increase in migraine symptoms of 18 times relative to those who did not increase their intake. Migraine symptoms improved when the number of sleep hours was increased, and we observed an improvement when patients decreased analgesic intake. The uncertainty about the end of the pandemic, the news, and social media are three items that contributed to the worsening of migraine symptoms in patients in the three investigated countries. Confinement during the first pandemic wave in Latin America harmed migraine patients who stayed home during the lockdown.
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COVID-19 , Migraine Disorders , Humans , Pandemics , Latin America , SARS-CoV-2 , Communicable Disease Control , Health Services Accessibility , Analgesics/therapeutic use , Migraine Disorders/drug therapyABSTRACT
Las quemaduras extensas son uno de los traumas más severos al cual puede verse expuesto un individuo, este tipo de trauma tiene efectos locales y sistémicos bien establecidos pero no muy bien comprendidos por la mayoría del personal de salud. Pueden comprometer directa o indirectamente a casi todos los sistemas del organismo. El objetivo de éste artículo es ofrecer una explicación sencilla y sistemática, que permita al lector entender mejor como responde el cuerpo humano ante un trauma extenso por quemadura, se espera que esta lectura mejore la comprensión de la fsiopatología de este tipo de trauma y por lo tanto se manifeste en el actuar diario del personal de salud.
An extensive burn wound is among the most severe trauma a patient can be exposed to, it has well defned local and systemic effects; however, these effects are little understood by most of the health care personal. This injury can compromise directly or indirectly every system in the body. The objective of this article is to offer a simple and systematic review that allows the reader a better understanding of the response of the human body after an extensive burn injury, it is expected that this paper contributes to the better understanding of the physiology of this type of trauma and therefore be expressed in the daily work of the health care personal.