Question

A 23-year-old woman reports vision loss interspersed with flashing lights before the onset of a very painful headache. during the assessment, she informs the nurse that she has been experiencing these symptoms for the last three months on a weekly basis. these symptoms are those of:

Answer 1

VISUAL AURA

Classic migraine, but not common migraine, is preceded by an aura of neurologic dysfunction. The aura is most often visual in nature, consisting of bright flashing lights, scintillating scotomas, or field cuts. Both kinds of migraine are most often characterized by a hemicranial throbbing headache associated with nausea, vomiting, photophobia, and phonophobia (aversion to sound). Familial patterns are not unusual with either classic or common migraine, although with classic migraine the probability that another family member will have a similar problem approaches 80%.

Answer 2

Migraine with aura.

Step-by-step explanation:

Migraine with aura is a neurological disease manifested by migraine attacks preceded by visual or sensory symptoms. The name aura refers to the sensations you notice just before the headache begins.

The most common manifestation of migraine with aura is the so-called visual aura, which can present as flashes of light, dark mosaic-like spots or bright zigzag images - like when you're walking on a road and seeing that heat zigzag emanating from the ground.

In other cases, migraine with aura may manifest as numbness or tingling on only one side of the body - depending on the severity of migraine with aura, one may begin with a tingling in one hand and it may spread all over body, falling asleep to only half of the tongue. However, these sensitive manifestations of migraine with aura are rarer. Generally, the aura begins about 30 minutes before migraine and may or may not persist after the pain begins.