What is Headache? How to manage it? What are the precautions to be taken? What are the signs and symptoms? What is the cause of this disease? How to treat it? How can homeopathy help you? All of this answered, in this post and of course our doctors always there to help you. Just fill in your details in the form down below and we will answer all your questions for FREE!
What is a Headache?
Pain anywhere in the region of head and neck is defined as a headache. Headache occurs at any age group and any sex. Headache can occur due to stress or emotional distress, or from a medical disorder.
What is the Classification of Headache?
Headaches are classified on the basis of causes:
Primary headaches: A primary headache occurs due to overactivity of or problems with the pain-sensitive region of the head. A primary headache isn’t a symptom of any underlying disease.
The very common primary headaches are:
• Tension Headache.
• Migraine headache.
• Cluster headache.
• Trigeminal autonomic cephalalgia (TAC).
Secondary headaches: Secondary headaches occur due to any underlying disease leading to activation of nerves connected to the head.
Common secondary headaches are:
• Ice cream headaches (commonly called brain freeze)
• Rebound headaches (headaches due to overuse of analgesics)
• External compression headaches (pressure on the head from external source due to sudden jerk to the body)
• Sinus headaches. (inflammation or congestion in sinus cavities)
• Thunderclap headaches.
• Spinal headaches (when cerebrospinal fluid level decreases due to any trauma, spinal anesthesia or spinal tap).
Certain diseases leading to a secondary type of headache:
• Brain tumor.
• Carbon monoxide poisoning.
• Hangovers after drinking alcohol.
• Giant cell arteritis.
• Glaucoma.
• Chiari Malformation.
• Meningitis.
• Post-concussion syndrome.
• Influenza.
• Encephalitis (brain inflammation).
• Stroke.
• Pseudotumor cerebri leads to increased pressure in the skull.
• Intracranial hematoma (blood vessel rupture of the brain)
• Trigeminal neuralgia.
• Brain aneurysm.
• Overuse of analgesics.
What are the factors that trigger a Headache?
• Stress.
• Accident trauma to the head.
• Excess intake of alcohol.
• The habit of smoking.
• Anemia.
• The habit of eating processed food containing nitrates.
• Cough.
• Exercise.
• Change in sleep patterns or deficient sleep habit.
• Poor posture.
• The habit of skipping meals.
What are the symptoms of Headache?
Tension headache: the most common form of primary headache. A constant dull ache on both sides radiating to neck. The person feels as if there is a tight band around the head. The most intense pressure is felt at the temples or over the eyebrows. It can either be episodic or chronic. The episodic attack lasts for a few hours or several days.
Migraine headache: second most common form of primary headache. A pulsating, throbbing pain usually on one side of the head. Pain may be accompanied by blurred vision, sensitivity to light and sound, nausea, and auras (sensory disturbances occurring 1 to 2 hours before the headache). An episode can last from a few hours to 2-3 days.
Cluster headache: occurs more commonly in males. Intense pain that is located around eyes and temples usually on one side. It can be accompanied by a bloodshot eye, lachrymation, running nose, and drooping of eyelids or swelling on the same side of the face. Each episode lasts for 30 to 90 minutes. The headaches occur in “clusters”, daily or every few days over a period of weeks to months. After which there may be a pain-free period of years before another cluster of headaches occurs.
Thunderclap headaches: a sudden, severe headache that reaches maximum intensity in less than one minute and lasts for more than 5 minutes. It is secondary to life-threatening conditions, such as intracerebral hemorrhage, cerebral venous thrombosis, ruptured or unruptured aneurysms, reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome (RVS), meningitis, and pituitary apoplexy. People who experience these headaches should seek medical evaluation immediately.
What are the Complications of Headache?
Complications of the headache can be as follows
• Chronic migraine
• Migraines infarction
• Persistent aura without infarction
• Migraine-triggered seizures
What is the Prognosis of Headache?
Every type of headache is not a serious type and do not require medication. In some type, headache is associated with a more severe type of disorders and they require immediate medical care.
What is the Treatment for Headache?
When a headache occurs regularly or three to four times a month then preventive treatment is required. In severe cases where the headache is associated with the disease, treatment depends on the underlying disease.
Some steps to help to reduce the trouble of headaches are:
• Stress reduction.
• Elimination of food like processed food containing nitrates.
• Regular exercise will help.
• Stress reduction therapies to be adopted.
• Intake of a balanced diet.
• A decrease in fasting habit.
• Relaxing training to be done.
• In severe cases where the headache is associated with diseases then depending on the disease the treatment is done.
What is the Homeopathic treatment for Headache?
-Belladonna
-Glonine
-Gelsemium sempervirens
-Nux vomica
-Natrum muriaticum
-Spigelia
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