“It will pass” is the most common response to a headache.. But if this happens often, then you should look for the reason, according to the online edition for girls and women from 14 to 35 years old Pannochka. net There are many reasons why a head can hurt: from a stress factor and exhaust gases to oncology. Therefore, if headaches become chronic and the “headache pill” does not help, you need to think about whether the headache is the cause of a serious illness.?
Tension pain.
This type of headache is the most common, and the source is difficult to diagnose, because its common cause is the stressful lifestyle of a modern person, less often the pain can be associated with an injury to the muscles of the head or neck..
Tension pains occur from time to time and rarely, and only in 3% of cases, become chronic.. Feelings with this type of pain are as follows: pressure or tightness around the circumference of the upper part of the head; the muscles of the forehead and eye sockets are tense, and attempts to relax them are futile.
Most often, such pain appears after dinner, when stress and fatigue take their toll.. Lasts usually about half an hour and occasionally. It should be treated with simple painkillers, such as paracetamol, but if tension pain becomes chronic, it is better to consult a doctor and undergo a course of treatment..
As a preventive measure, small regular physical activity, walks in the fresh air help, it is useful to level the stress factor..
Migraine.
If the pain is concentrated in one half of the head and lasts 4 hours or longer, this is a migraine. This type of headache is accompanied by dizziness, nausea, and photophobia (photophobia).. Before the onset of an attack, visual abnormalities are not uncommon, for example, people see bright stripes or colored rings, feel tingling all over the body.
The occurrence of migraine is associated with impaired brain function and it is noted that in the process of pain, the blood vessels of the head expand, and abnormal electrical activity occurs on the cortex.. The causes of migraine often lie in external factors: cigarette smoke, loud monotonous sounds, pungent odors.. Doctors recommend that people diagnosed with migraine avoid provocative factors, since migraine is easier to prevent than to treat.. Treat with triptans, migraine painkillers do not help.
cluster pain.
A rather rare type of headache that affects about 1% of the world's population, and 80% are men.
Characteristic signs: throbbing pain on one side of the head in the eye area, tearing, runny nose, redness of the eyes, rush of blood to the head. This type of pain is so severe that the person cannot move or speak.. Cluster pains occur at regular intervals, for example, once a week, a month and last from 15 minutes to an hour.
The causes of cluster pain have not been established, they can disappear as suddenly as they appeared.. Difficult to treat. If the attack of pain is delayed, then an oxygen mask is used to breathe the patient and the doctor prescribes medications.
Hangover.
The main cause of the headache in this case lies in the fact that alcohol in large doses dilates the vessels of the brain and disrupts the functioning of serotonin (a substance through which electrical signals are transmitted from one nerve cell to another). Also, alcohol has the ability to dehydrate the body, which in itself provokes migraine attacks..
The classic cure for such pain is a paracetamol tablet and a good night's sleep..
Brain tumor.
Only in 5% of cases, neoplasms are accompanied by headaches..
This is due to the fact that the tumor, having increased to a certain size, causes an increase in intracranial pressure, which causes a headache..
This type of headache occurs in the morning and is accompanied by vomiting.. The situation worsens over time, attacks become more frequent and more painful.. A person loses weight dramatically, convulsions are possible. If there is a complex of these symptoms, then you should not delay contacting a specialist.. And, of course, you need to treat the root cause.
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