Reply Received: October 8, 2013 Accepted: October 13, 2013 Published online: December 4, 2013
Eur Neurol 2014;71:76 DOI: 10.1159/000356339
Answer to the Letter to the Editor by N. Sethi [Eur Neurol, DOI: 10.1159/000356342] Aslan Tekatas Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey
Dear Editor, We thank Dr. Sethi for his comment [1]. As we stated in our study, our patients were not diagnosed with migraine before. Other potential triggering factors were questioned in these patients already. There were no triggering factors present for migraine. Headache occurred only when the patients were exposed to sun-
light. In other conditions, headache did not occur. In order to relieve the headache, patients had to avoid sunlight. Wearing sunglasses was not a solution for headache relief. Therefore, we think that sunlight is a triggering factor in these patients. We do not assume that sunlight is an innocent bystander.
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Reference 1
Dr. Aslan Tekatas Trakya Universitesi, Tip Fakültesi Nöroloji Anabilim Dalı TR–22030 Edirne (Turkey) E-Mail atekatas @ hotmail.com
Sethi NK: Sunlight as a migraine trigger – guilty or an innocent bystander? Eur Neurol, DOI: 10.1159/000356342.
Copyright: S. Karger AG, Basel 2014. Reproduced with the permission of S. Karger AG, Basel. Further reproduction or distribution (electronic or otherwise) is prohibited without permission from the copyright holder.
Eur Neurol 2014;71:76 DOI: 10.1159/000356339
Answer to the Letter to the Editor by N. Sethi [Eur Neurol, DOI: 10.1159/000356342] Aslan Tekatas Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey
Dear Editor, We thank Dr. Sethi for his comment [1]. As we stated in our study, our patients were not diagnosed with migraine before. Other potential triggering factors were questioned in these patients already. There were no triggering factors present for migraine. Headache occurred only when the patients were exposed to sun-
light. In other conditions, headache did not occur. In order to relieve the headache, patients had to avoid sunlight. Wearing sunglasses was not a solution for headache relief. Therefore, we think that sunlight is a triggering factor in these patients. We do not assume that sunlight is an innocent bystander.
© 2013 S. Karger AG, Basel 0014–3022/13/0712–0076$38.00/0 E-Mail [email protected] www.karger.com/ene
Reference 1
Dr. Aslan Tekatas Trakya Universitesi, Tip Fakültesi Nöroloji Anabilim Dalı TR–22030 Edirne (Turkey) E-Mail atekatas @ hotmail.com
Sethi NK: Sunlight as a migraine trigger – guilty or an innocent bystander? Eur Neurol, DOI: 10.1159/000356342.
Copyright: S. Karger AG, Basel 2014. Reproduced with the permission of S. Karger AG, Basel. Further reproduction or distribution (electronic or otherwise) is prohibited without permission from the copyright holder.
