The frequent headaches and how to treat them

The frequent headaches and how to treat

Headaches may be a symptom of cerebrovascular disease, brain tumors, infections of the head and neck, neck following sympathetic syndrome, functional neurological disorder ... The patient should apply a separate management for each root cause.

 

1. Tension Headache (Stress Headache)

This type of disease is known also as headache or muscle contraction headaches psychology. Women suffer it more than men and all of patients are usually in middle age, who are depressed and anxious.

- Symptoms:

You have often pain in the sides of your head. You feel tied to two temporal or occipital region, neck, gradual onset. It can last for days or weeks ...

- Treatment: Use of sedative drugs, beta blockers or antidepressants.

2.Chain headache

As a kind of headache due to vascular causes, encountered mainly in middle-aged men and is largely smoke. The pain occurs after 1 to 3 hours of sleep and wake up, the patient had severe headaches. The pain or recurrent pain on many times and can last for several days or several weeks.

The pain is only in the first half, pain behind the eyes and forehead, temples spread, depth and feeling no pain at the pulse beat. It may include symptoms such as the heavy, watery eyes, stuffy nose, runny nose, sweating, eyelids and ipsilateral miosis, no nausea and vomiting.
Currently this type of headache is considered neurotic - chemical cycles of the body. They are often treated by steroids often, lithium, methysergid ...

3.Migraine

This is a type of headache due to vascular causes.it come in and attack and the causes are remain unknown. There are two major types:

- Migraine without warning symptoms: usually occurs in the morning when you wake up, sometimes at night, rarely occur in the daytime. The pain usually begins slowly and reached a peak after several hours. At first, the patient has only a pain in the side of the head (usually at the temples - forehead) and then gradually spread to the whole head; The pain is mainly in the skull and little at the pain in the face. The pain increases in the circuit and beats up the operation,so patients often prefer quiet in the darkroom. Symptoms may be accompanied by nausea and vomiting, bradycardia, hypertension and sensitivity to odors. The pain generally lasts from a few hours to a few days and left feeling soreness in his head in serveral days.

- Migraine symptoms caveat: often begins with focal neurological symptoms or lobe cortical and gradually develop in 5-20 minutes.Then it lasts less than 60 minutes. This was followed by headache, nausea and photophobia, visual disturbances can with the pain, which is felt as burning, tingling, weakness, half-human, speech or aphasia. The symptoms lasted less than 60 minutes and the patient will recover completely.This is the biggest difference to distinguish from other headaches.

While you are having a migraine, you should avoid stress, diet chocolate, cheese, coffee, alcohol, tobacco, or birth control pills because they can create conditions for the disease to appear. We often have to drugs ergotamine group to treat migraines.Prevention of migraine by using beta-blockers, calcium channel blockers and anti-serotonin.

Recent research show that people tend to have more migraines asthma risk.

You should avoid alcohol, chocolate, fatty foods, seasoning, use less hot and spicy ...to prevent headaches and try to limit insomnia, stress and smoking.

The living, sleeping and eating in moderation and daily exercise have a significant effect in regulating stress and help sleep easier. Also you should massage the forehead and the temples with your hands before going to bed or waking up. That help to limit the generation of headaches.

When you have a headache, you can be cured by pressing up on the point between the eyebrows.Then you make some the small circle on that position.You can put two fingers pointing to the outer corner of the eyes and two clawed back above the rub. Then you should place two fingers on the acupuncture points and massage into the temples small circle. The neck movement and neck massage have the same effect because they reduce stress and painful contraction of the muscles in the shoulders and neck.