5 types of headache and their treatment
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Millions of people around the world suffer daily headaches, which can be both moderate and hardly tolerable. Even absolutely healthy people are not immune from this trouble - a headache can be caused by changes in the weather or overwork. But sometimes a headache is a constant companion of a man, pestering him with his presence from day to day, and neither aspirin nor rest helps here. ILive presents 5 types of headaches.
Cluster headaches
This kind of headache affects a very small number of people - only one percent around the world, but that's not all. 80% of those unfortunate people she tortures are men.
The pain is so strong that a person can not move and even talk. Symptoms of cluster pain are a rush of blood to the head, throbbing pain in the temple and eyes, redness of the eyes and tear. It can last from 15 minutes to an hour, and visit a person - once a week or once a month. The nature of cluster pain is unknown. They are difficult to treat, and if the attack is delayed, the doctor prescribes the drugs, and to facilitate breathing the patient uses an oxygen mask.
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Migraine
Probably migraine is one of the most famous and terrible types of headache. It can arise after awakening, but if it even goes away, it must come back again. Migraines can be both tolerant and literally tearing their heads apart. The duration of torture can be as many hours, and two days. Migraine does not come alone, but with vertigo, vomiting and intolerance of loud sounds and bright light. Until now, scientists are lost in riddles and can not indicate the cause of migraine, but it is women who are more prone to her attacks. The patient needs to see a doctor who will prescribe blood tests and send them to a computer tomography.
Headaches due to overexertion
Emotional experiences, anxiety and stress, as well as overstrain of the muscles of the body can cause tension headaches. Also, another cause of its development may be latent depression. A person suffering from this kind of headache should consult a neurologist or a psychiatrist.
Tension pains
This is the most common type of headache, because the cause is often the frequent stress that a modern person is exposed to. Also, the causes of tensile pain can be chronic neck and head injuries. This kind of headache does not have to be chronic and occurs from time to time. With a tensile headache, a person feels tension in the eyes and feels a sensation, as if the head is clamped in a vice. Usually the pain appears in the afternoon, when a person has already undergone stress. In order that the pain subsided, you can drink paracetamol, but it's best to go out into the fresh air or do some light physical activity.
Temporal arteritis
Basically, temporal arteritis worries people aged about 50 years and older. It is accompanied by depression, depression, insomnia and weight loss. Besides headaches, problems can arise aching pain in the neck and shoulder pain. In fact, there are a lot of factors provoking this kind of pain - this is an excessive hobby for medicines, a long stay in the sun, viral infections and alcohol. To treat temporal arteritis is necessary, otherwise a person can completely lose sight. The doctor, most likely, will appoint the patient steroid medicines that act on the blood vessels, stopping their inflammation.