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Symptoms of disease - headache

Headache - one of the most frequent symptoms of different diseases.

Clinic of pain in his head: is localized on the level of orbits up to suboccipital area. In the broad sense of this concept includes also and facial pain. Anatomical education, which is often associated development of headache, blood- vessels of a circle of a large brain, venous sinuses, the basal departments of dura, V, IX, X of the cranial nerves and three of the upper cervical spine; pain receptors are rich in all fabrics of a scalp.

The pain in his head are divided into:

- Frequent pains in the head. The main reasons for them are vascular disease (hypertension, temporal arteritis, atherosclerosis of vessels of the brain), osteochondrosis, diseases of the eye (glaucoma), teeth, and migraine.
- Pain in the head attack. Typical for high blood pressure (hypertension crises), feohromotsytoma, migraines.
- Pain in the head, accompanied by nausea and vomiting. Typical for feohromotsytoma, hypertension, of diseases of the nervous system - for migraine headaches and increased intracranial pressure. Increased intracranial pressure may be hypertension, bleeding in the brain, brain tumors.
- Pain in my head the night or early in the morning. Characteristic for the increase in intracranial pressure.
- Pain in one side of my head. Typical for migraines.
- Pain in the head, accompanied by visual disturbances (glimpses of the flies before the eyes, blurred vision) and/or photophobia. Typical for hypertension, migraine.
Recurring pain in the head from one side of the face, are very strong, and seizures. Typical for neuritis of the trigeminal nerve - inflammation of the branches of one of the cranial nerves, thanks to which there is a sensitivity on the face, is carried out by movement of the muscles of the face.

Other kinds of pain in the head:

- Aching in his head. Monotonous, compresses, spread all over the head, often capturing and whiskey. Occurs most often - it suffer up to 60% of the people.
Cause: stress, fatigue, emotional shake-up, an overstrain of view.
It is recommended that: manual therapy, massage of the face, neck, and head. Can help sedative drugs (tincture of valerian, mint, leonurus). It is worth to try lotion with valerian (2 tbsp poured a glass of boiling water, insist 20 minutes, wet gauze and put on his forehead and eyes for 20 minutes). For the maintenance of the nervous system useful vitamins of group B and magnesium (Mg). If possible, reduce the load.

- "Neck" the pain of the head of medium intensity, extends from the base of the neck to the back of the head, affects of whiskey and eyes. Pain may be accompanied by dizziness, muscle pain in the cervical spine.
Reason: catarrhal diseases, osteochondrosis, an overstrain of the neck muscles, trauma to the neck and spine, inflammation of the joints.
It is recommended to: change the pillow (better for orthopaedic from latex or with the grass filler). Ease the pain of strong tea with honey and milk, mustard plaster or file with valerian, imposed on the back of the neck and back of the head. Useful exercises, especially the stretch marks, slow corners and bends his head.

- Comprehensive pain in the head is characterized by a feeling of heaviness and bursting open from the inside, extends to the whole of his head. Increases with the changes of atmospheric pressure, the admission of alcohol.
Reason: increased intracranial pressure.
It is recommended that: yoga, reduced consumption of salt and alcohol, giving up smoking, the rate of multivitamin preparations.

- Pain voltage is characterized by the appearance closer to the evening the dull monotonous pain all over her head. Such a state may continue for several hours.
Cause: the most common reason - voltage. You do all day sitting at a computer, working table, in the car or, for example, are standing at the counter in the one position, constantly nervous, and the house sleeping on an uncomfortable bed and pillow. The result is a spasm of the blood vessels in the brain and neck.
It is recommended that: often change the posture in the workplace, make a 5-minute charging every 2 hours. Massage your neck, temples, razotrite the muscles of the neck and back. Whiskey lubricate ointment against migraines, for example balm "Gold star". Spend a little session of meditating. Sit back, close your eyes, relax your muscles, breathe calmly and evenly. Imagine you are on a sunny day by the sea. Each rolling wave takes away your pain, tension and carries away into the sea.

- A dull aching head appears in the middle of the day or after physical load, such as when climbing stairs, accompanied by the appearance of black beauty spots before the eyes, weakness, dizziness, blood rushing to his head.
Reason: spring weather with unstable geomagnetic background, changes of atmospheric pressure and temperature, a sudden change of wind direction provokes spasms of blood vessels. When pressure is low, the pain occurs in the temples, with the highest - in the back of his head.
It is Recommended: to Measure the pressure. At low take the infusion of eleutherococcus, magnolia-vine, ginseng and lie down with pripodnatami feet, with a high save tincture of pion, valerian, motherwort, lie with your head elevated.

- A dull pain in the head, resulting in the morning.
Reason: caffeic dependence. Surely you are too little sleep, and often also drink a lot of coffee. Keep in mind that the body gets used to caffeine as a drug.
It is Recommended to: Drink coffee no more than one or two cups a day.

Which diseases there is headache

The main causes of headache:

1. Pain in the head with organic diseases of the brain or liquorodynamic violations.
- headache, associated with head injury (acute or chronic), which may be localized or general, it is difficult to treat;
- headache with tumors of the brain, while the head is usually a sore in the morning, the headache can be combined with nausea, vomiting;
- headache with inflammatory diseases (meningitis, meningoencephalitis, etc.).

2. Vascular headache.
- migraine - a condition in which appear the attacks of severe throbbing headache in one half of the head. It may also cause nausea, vomiting, light- and noisephobia. Most often suffer migraine young women. Also known about the genetic susceptibility to migraine.
- pain in the head with arterial hypertension is not meet so often, as is commonly assumed. However, a frequent symptom is when the rise in blood pressure - a heavy, gloomy, throbbing pain, which is usually concerned in the field of a neck and neck.

3. Psychogenic headache.
- headache of the voltage - the most common form of headache - occur in response to mental overstrain, which is the result of acute or chronic stress. Most often occurs in people with a high level of anxiety, expressed or masked depression. This compact, strangle, compressing, persistent pain, as a rule, without a clear localization, a weak or moderate intensity, not growing from physical exertion, flowing along the type of compression ("helmets" or "ring" around the head).

4. Headache, caused by “out of mind” reasons
- pain in the head when “out of mind” infectious diseases. Infection of any origin and location may be the cause of up to 40% of acute attacks of headaches. Any viral or bacterial infections can begin the headache sets, and already may later join other symptoms of illness, such as fever, lethargy, lack of appetite and other manifestations of the disease.
- the action of drugs/chemicals. The drugs most often headache (when receiving drugs, and to cancel them) cause oral contraceptives, nitrates (such as nitroglycerin)and caffeine. Of chemicals should be noted alcohol, benzene, carbon monoxide, insecticides, lead.
- headache, associated with metabolic disorders (pain in the head in hypoxia, hypercapnia, dialysis, etc.)
- infectious diseases (various, including influenza, sore throat, and many others);
- headache of the pathology of the skull, neck, eyes, ears, nose, paranasal sinuses, the teeth, mouth, other structures of the face and skull (pain in the head on glaucoma, sinusitis, etc.).
- headache with osteochondrosis of the cervical spine - and - pain, as a rule, are one-sided localization in the occipital area and apply to the temporo-orbital region. The headache may occur sporadically or wear a long, chronic character. Often, patients with this pathology complain about the restriction of movements in the cervical spine, stiffness in the muscles of the neck and back, a significant decrease in the volume of arbitrary motion in them. Pain may occur for no apparent reason, however, is considerably more often been provoked by mechanical factors. As a rule, the emergence of these headaches are preceded by episodes of skin overvoltage - sleeping in an uncomfortable position, prolonged physical activity, connected with the inclination or re unbending head, unusual physical load. However, not always changes identified during x-ray examination of the cervical spine, manifest headache or other neurological symptoms. The presence of signs of osteochondrosis of the spine on radiographs after 25-30 years of age is almost mandatory, but it does not mean that the pain in all cases associated with these changes.

Which doctor should I contact if there is a headache

• Neurologist
• Traumatologist

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