Pain in the brain

Pain in the brain, regardless of the accompanying symptoms in the first place, requires immediate consultation with your doctor. Of all the existing causes, about five percent are organic lesions of the nervous system. To be able to identify these causes in time is one of the most important tasks of any specialist.

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What diseases cause pain in the brain?

Benign intracranial hypertension

It more often affects females, is characterized by high CSF pressure without symptoms of organic damage to the central nervous system or hydrocephalus. Concomitant manifestations - a feeling of nausea, accompanied by vomiting, shaky gait, pain in the field of eyeballs. In the initial stage of the disease, the pain in the brain may not be very strong, eventually grows, has a diffuse character, is accompanied by a feeling of raspryaniya, pain in the forehead, increases at night or after a dream, as well as with tilting the head, during coughing or sneezing, with sudden movements, noise in the ears, bifurcation in the eyes. Patients are prescribed a therapeutic diet with a minimum salt content, body weight correction. Normalization of intracranial pressure is carried out with the help of drugs that promote the active excretion of water from the gastrointestinal tract and suppress the secretion of cerebrospinal fluid. With timely measures taken, the outlook is often favorable.

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Hydrocephalus

Hydrocephalus is an excessive accumulation of fluid in the cavities and in the spinal canal, caused by a violation of its circulation, absorption or production. In addition to pain, nausea accompanied by vomiting is observed. The main manifestations are an increase in the ventricles of the brain, a decrease in the density of the brain substance as a result of the fact that it is impregnated with the cerebrospinal fluid, and the narrowing of the subarachnoid spaces.

In the acute stage of the disease, medications are prescribed to reduce intracranial pressure (glycerin, furosemide, mannitol), puncture is performed in the fontanel to remove a certain amount of cerebrospinal fluid. Further treatment consists of general restorative therapy, the appointment of anti-inflammatory drugs, hydrochloric-coniferous baths, as an auxiliary therapy, it is possible to use diacarb with potassium preparations. If there is no positive effect of conservative treatment, the patient should be referred to a stationary department.

Intracranial infections

• Meningitis is an inflammatory process in the membranes (viral or bacterial). Complications of meningitis can include hearing loss, development of epilepsy, mental retardation in childhood, in the absence of timely assistance, a fatal outcome is possible, sometimes within a few hours. The main signs are very high fever, intense pain in the brain, nausea, vomiting, photophobia, sometimes a rash may appear on the skin. When viral meningitis, the patient is prescribed plenty of drink, analgesics and antipyretics. When bacterial meningitis is prescribed antibiotic therapy (most often, penicillin), corticosteroids, drugs that normalize the water-salt balance.
• Encephalitis is a pathology of the brain, which leads to its inflammation. It is provoked by infectious, allergic or toxic factors, accompanied by a high temperature, a violation of the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract and upper respiratory tract, the patient is concerned about pain in the brain, photophobia, seizures of epilepsy, severe fogging or complete absence of consciousness. Treatment is appointed depending on the type and form of the disease, is performed strictly in a hospital environment under the continuous supervision of a physician.
• Abscess - purulent inflammation of the CNS tissues. The risk factors for the onset of the disease include lung pathology, heart disease, heart valve damage, open craniocerebral trauma, and immunodeficiency. Treatment is carried out in the neurosurgical department, antibacterial drugs, nootropics, vitamin therapy are prescribed, osteoplastic trepanation of the skull is performed with removal of the abscess.

Stroke

Stroke is a very serious and dangerous violation of the circulation, which can lead to the death of brain tissue. One of the most common causes of stroke is atherosclerosis and high blood pressure, resulting in clotting of the artery with a blood clot, a hemorrhage into the brain. When stroke occurs daggerache in the brain, nausea, vomiting, possible cramps, loss of consciousness. Medical care for stroke should be given immediately, the patient should be laid on the bed, to ensure maximum access to oxygen, promptly call an ambulance.

Pain in the brain with any accompanying signs requires an immediate call to the doctor, as this is a rather dangerous and alarming symptom requiring thorough, timely and qualified diagnosis in order to differentiate the attendant symptoms to exclude such dangerous diseases as a tumor, meningitis, stroke, etc.

How to recognize the pain in the brain?

For the correct differentiation of pains, the following parameters should be considered: temporary or permanent character is pain, suddenly begin or gradually increase, whether the pains are prolonged or short-term, blunt or intense. Also, it is necessary to take into account provoking factors: as a result, pain in the brain arises (sudden changes in weather conditions, menstruation, sexual intercourse, coughing, sleeping, alcohol intake, stressful situation, head position change, etc.), what additional symptoms accompany it.

To the alarming clinical manifestations include the pain in the brain that arises suddenly and has a strictly one-sided localization, characterized by the transition from periodic pain to constant, progressive and not amenable to traditional methods of treatment.