Caricature warriors claiming that the headcan not be sick, because it is a bone, in part, strangely enough, right. The headache really hurts, but inside it, and more often it is a symptom of a malaise or a disease of some of the organs of the human body.
The headache is common for everyone - some people rarely haveothers periodically. Her attacks are harassed, according to statistics, every sixth person. Dislocation, the forms and causes of this pain can be very different, the source can be in the brain, and in the vessels, and in the nerves. Stress, lack of sleep, overstrain, pressure drops, a deficiency of any trace elements in the body, osteochondrosis, meningitis - the cause must be established and treated. But first - and in this all the doctors agree - it is necessary to remove the symptom itself, that is, the pain. If your head hurts, you can not tolerate, and as a first aid, any medications for headaches that are (must be!) In any home medicine cabinet: analgin, citramon, pentalgin, tempalgin, paracetamol, balm "Asterisk" and the like. They are not for nothing that they are dispensed in pharmacies without a prescription - this is so that a person suffering from a headache does not have to suffer until he gets to see a doctor. In addition, out of hundreds of headache attacks, only five can be a reason for hospitalization, with other cases of malaise you can cope without the help of doctors.
Probably everyone felt that the headache may be different, arise in different places and be accompanied by various side symptoms.
Let's try to deal with "geography" first. Feeling, when the whole head hurts, is typical for a fever caused by a cold or infectious diseases. The pain in the frontal part of the head, on both sides above the orbits, may indicate eye diseases, and, perhaps, on unsuccessfully matched glasses. If the headache in the temples hurts, giving to the back of the head, then the reason, most likely, is the difference in blood pressure. Embracing and compressing, like a hoop, a forehead, a whiskey and a nape, the pain is called "pain of tension" and indicates overloads, emotional stress, prolonged finding in an uncomfortable position.
Pain in the head and eyes may also indicateoverwork, but may also be harbingers of serious diseases - encephalitis, meningitis, brain tumors. Pain on one side of the head behind the ear and in the temple "hints" at dental problems or otitis. But when the headache is severely in one part - right or left - with the epicenter in the temple, this is perhaps the most unpleasant and painful manifestation of the headache - a migraine.
Suffering migraines (and most often it happenswomen, and the disease, as a rule, is inherited) with nothing will not confuse this painful many hours of pain, attacks which can last up to three days. The nightmare pain is accompanied by nausea and hypersensitivity to sounds and light, so it is better to wait for an attack in a darkened room, taking in the first phase vasodilators, and on the second - vasoconstrictors.
Not so painful, but obtrusive and havingpropensity to frequent repetitions "pain of tension" doctors are also called "helmet neurotic". When a person, due to emotional overstrain or physical fatigue, "puts on" this "helmet", he has a monotonous and dull headache, as if the skull is pinched by something. In these cases, natural soothing agents (infusions, teas), self-massage of the head or "combing out" the pain with a massage brush help with tablets.
Those who lead an inactive way of life, as well asin patients with osteochondrosis, vegetovascular dystonia or experiencing other pressure problems, headaches caused by spasm or vasodilatation are not uncommon. Such pain pulsates in the temples and is accompanied by a general broken state. Anesthetic drugs alone are not enough in this case - it is necessary to control the level of arterial pressure and taking medications that normalize it. The medicine that suits you will be prompted by the doctor.
And, by the way, about doctors. You can learn to cope with your own headaches and quickly get rid of them with pills, but this does not mean that you can eliminate their cause. Therefore, if you have a regular, suspiciously often headache, be sure to pay a call to a doctor. After all, the "sick" head may well "hint" at some more serious disease.
