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? What are the causes of headache?
Health Guide: Most people have experienced this phenomenon, perhaps because it is so common that some friends often don't take it seriously, but I don't know that some types of headaches may be a harbinger or indicate a serious headache! The following are 20 types of headaches and their characteristics. How much do you know?

First of all, cervicogenic headache

Neck headache is the most common organic headache in clinic, and most of them have intense and limited neck activity, neck pain or tenderness near cervical vertebra. Patients with long-term headaches often have tenderness in the head pain area, and headaches often have symptoms of eye discomfort.

Clinically, most cervical vertebrae can cause headaches. The mobility of cervical spine varies greatly among individuals, which is related to age, occupation and situation. Generally, with the increase of age, the activity of the neck is gradually limited, and it is easy to suffer from cervical vertebrae. Pain often occurs in the occipital region. With the increase of age, the pain becomes more and more frequent, which needs attention.

Second, drug-induced headache

Some patients with chronic headache, after taking painkillers for a long time, the curative effect drops, so that patients have to gradually increase the dose. The more medication, the shorter the headache relief time, and the more medication, the more serious the headache. This kind of headache caused by improper use of headache drugs is called drug-induced rebound headache, and its occurrence is related to excessive drug interference.

Third, sexual headache.

It often happens or occurs during manual labor, and the pain is generally located in the temples on both sides. It can be relieved after rest and will attack again after exercise. This kind of headache is an important sign of myocardial ischemia, and if it is not rested and treated in time, it will induce sudden death. This kind of headache should be rested and treated immediately.

Fourth, brain tumors have headaches.

The headache caused by brain tumor has its particularity. The degree of pain is not fluctuating every time, but getting worse and worse. As time goes on, the pain gets worse and worse. Exercise, twist, cough, sneeze, lift weights, etc. It will aggravate the pain, and it will ease when you lie down. Nausea and vomiting often occur.

V. Post-traumatic headache

Headache after trauma can be divided into acute and chronic types, and head trauma is generally accompanied by concussion.

Headache after acute trauma can cause loss of consciousness or short-term memory, which usually occurs within 14 days after waking up and lasts for about 1 ~ 2 months. It is characterized by throbbing headache, accompanied by nausea, vomiting, gastrointestinal symptoms and dizziness.

Chronic post-traumatic headache has no obvious characteristics, local tenderness, accompanied by depressive symptoms, tinnitus or emotional changes. Post-traumatic headache is related to the disorder of cerebral vasomotor regulation and cerebrospinal fluid circulation to some extent, and psychological factors also play a very important role.

Six,

This is a very common headache. Frequent and repeated attacks, there are obvious inducing factors before the attack, such as work or study pressure, tension, anxiety and so on. During the attack, the headache can spread to the neck, shoulders and back, showing mild to moderate pain, with numbness, stiffness and tightness when it hurts.

Seven, intracranial headache.

1 Intracranial hematoma, all awake patients may have severe headache due to intracranial hemorrhage and increased intracranial pressure, usually accompanied by hypertension or a history of trauma;

2. Intracranial space occupying lesion, and the headache site is related to the space occupying lesion site;

Acute epidural or subdural hematoma, when the patient is awake, the degree of headache is consistent with the increase of intracranial pressure. Headache can be accompanied by systemic symptoms, such as increased pulse rate and sweating;

Subarachnoid hemorrhage can cause sudden severe headache, accompanied by body weight loss; If it is arteriovenous rupture, headache usually occurs within 60 minutes after rupture, accompanied by vomiting, unconsciousness and stiff neck.

Eight, cold, fever and headache

It occurs in the early stage of a cold with low or no fever, but the headache is obvious, accompanied by muscle soreness and joint pain, or stuffy nose, sore throat, runny nose and sneezing.

Suggestion: If it is a simple headache and the whole body aches, it is recommended to use anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs, such as fenbid acetaminophen, naproxen and triamcinolone acetonide. If headache is accompanied by symptoms such as stuffy nose and runny nose, it is recommended to use cold medicines, such as Kuaike, Gankang, Kangbide and Yindefa.

Nine, migraine

Migraine is also a common type of headache, which manifests as recurrent unilateral headache or bilateral headache. About 60% of patients have family history, and there are more women than men in adult patients, with different frequency of onset, but adult female patients have a great relationship with menstrual cycle. Generally, the pain is concentrated on one side, and the pain is pulsating, often accompanied by nausea and vomiting.

Sinusitis and headache

All kinds of sinusitis, especially chronic sinusitis, can cause headaches, and the pain is aggravated when you blow your nose hard. The location of the lesion is different, so is the location of the headache. If the frontal sinus is diseased, there will be tenderness above the eyes and below the forehead when you have a headache; If the forehead is sick, the cheeks and maxillary teeth will be very painful. The obvious symptom of sinusitis is that the head is swollen all day, like an inflatable ball. When I was getting ready for bed at night, I suddenly felt like a deflated balloon, and I felt the mucus in my nose slowly dripping into my throat, causing a cough.

Eleven, adolescent headache

Young women are more common. Before the attack, there are often signs such as stars, dizziness, heartbeat, sweating, numbness of hands and feet. The onset is rapid, lasting for hours or days, and then there are no symptoms. Headache is mostly confined to one side of the orbit and forehead, and it is a severe jumping pain, which can sometimes spread to the whole head and may be accompanied by. Generally, it will ease or disappear after sleep. Female patients often have menstrual attacks, which may be related to endocrine.

Twelve, functional headache

Headache is distending pain or jumping pain with fluctuation, accompanied by insomnia, dreaminess, fatigue and dizziness. Neurofunctional headache is often painful, and no pathological changes can be found during examination. The effect of drug treatment is not significant. The treatment is mainly to overcome bad mentality, be open-minded, be optimistic, take part in more cultural and sports activities, and properly cooperate with sedative and analgesic treatment.

Thirteen, headache during pregnancy

Headache in the third trimester of pregnancy is more common in the occipital forehead, accompanied by restlessness and insomnia, followed by nausea, vomiting and chest tightness. This is a serious pregnancy congestion phenomenon, suggesting that mother and baby are dying. Mainly because after the blood pressure rises, the maternal oxygen supply to the fetus decreases, leading to fetal hypoxia, leading to fetal growth retardation or suffocation and death.

Fourteen, three forks

This kind of headache is often acute, paroxysmal, short-term severe pain similar to electric shock, which radiates to the face along the branch of unilateral trigeminal nerve, sometimes only for more than ten seconds, but it recurs several times to dozens of times a day, and can be induced by eating, washing face and talking.

Fifteen, summer headache

The heat is pressing. In order to dissipate heat and cool down, sweat glands lose a lot of water through evaporation of sweat. If you don't replenish water in time at this time, the blood volume of the human body will be reduced, and the blood supply to the brain will be insufficient, leading to headache. In summer, people are used to drinking cold drinks. Some people have a headache after drinking, which makes submucosal blood vessels spasm. Although this spasm is short-lived, it cuts off the blood that the brain can't stand, leading to a headache. People call it cold drink headache.

Sixteen, hypertensive headache

Headache with dizziness, head swelling, heavy head or tight neck. Headache mostly occurs in the morning, located in the occipital or temporal part of the forehead, which may be caused by the vasodilation of the extracranial carotid system and the increase of its pulse amplitude.

Seventeen, headache caused by glaucoma

Headaches are mostly located in the upper orbit or around the eyeball, mainly due to high intraocular pressure and visual impairment.

Eighteen, facial headache

Inflammation or cancer of the eyes, nose, ears and teeth can cause headaches. Such as otitis media, mastoiditis, rhinitis, sinusitis, forehead and nose root pain; Postheadache and neck headache caused by chronic rhinitis or sinusitis.

Nineteen. pillow

Occurred in the distribution area of greater occipital nerve and lesser occipital nerve, and the local nerve had inflammatory reaction, which induced occipital. Mainly after headache, general persistent pain, and can involve the neck and behind the ear and other adjacent parts, local hyperalgesia, can also be manifested as paroxysmal tingling, tenderness of the affected area.

Twenty, headache is related to vascular diseases.

Patients with headaches are related to the following two situations.

1 is prone to transient cerebral ischemia, especially posterior cerebral artery ischemia.

② Carotid artery or posterior cerebral artery, basilar artery, vertebral artery, etc. All of them are narrow and occluded, which is easy to occur when blood supply is insufficient or ischemia occurs. Moderate persistent fluctuating headache occurred in the corresponding part of vascular disease.

Tip: Don't take a headache seriously. Seek medical attention in time when you have a headache, so as not to delay your illness. I hope that the above 20 points can be remembered by parents. Good health is really important for yourself and your family!

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