CORRELATION BETWEEN MIGRAINE & REFRACTIVE ERRORS IN YOUNG POPULATION

Abstract

One of the major public health problems is headache. To evaluate refractive errors we can compare subjects with migraine headache with healthy subjects. Retinoscopy and subjective refraction can be done to find out anisometropia and type of refractive errors; myopia, hypermetropia and astigmatism. The incidences of sporadic headache, chronic primary headache are the causes for chief complaints from patients. Obviously the young adults contribute a vital role in economic and social aspects of the society, so headaches causes less work efficiency and personal too. Acute glaucoma, optic neuritis has been found to be responsible to be linked with headache. It was also reported the higher prevalence of headache in subjects with binocular vision anomalies and uncorrected refractive errors, not all the studies consistent with this theory. The criteria for the migraine connected with refractive errors include: (1) uncorrected refractive errors or wrongly corrected refractive errors; (2) mild pain in eyes and frontal lobe; (3) pain that is relieved by resting but get worse by doing visual tasks at the distance or angle for a long time when visual acuity is impaired. Purpose: To compare the prevalence of refractive errors in the young adults with headaches