Pain is incurable. Chronic pain that occurs with any part of the body is not that. Especially headaches. This results in the problem as well as psychological. Family problems, social problems, and that is important. Economic problems. Because pain is such as to effect the performance of both men and women of working age.
However, according to medical data. Found that in general Physical pain caused by the changes in all systems within the body of our people. From the nerve endings being abused. Or may be due to the psychological. Or caused by the tumor may be acute and severe pain, which is often a sign of danger. Advance warning to know that they should not be relaxed. Because a physician delayed. Can effect treatment. In particular, the search for the cause, which is a potential source of pain, it would be more difficult as well.
Thus, patients with headache. Should seek medical advise immediately. Especially when the pain of sudden onset, vomiting, fever, stiff neck, limbs tea weak and need to see the patient with chronic pain, such as taking painkillers for a period exceeding three months, but the symptoms are not cured. Is another group that should be a doctor. While in some cases the pain does not go away after taking pain common to two to three times, or are a doctor, then 2-3, but the symptoms do not abate. It is an indication should be given special examination of experts.
The diagnosis of headache syndromes. A neurological expertise of physicians who have studied this subject in particular. To the correct treatment. The doctors found that Taking painkiller. Or some kind of medication for stress, it may be a side effect or a negative affect on the body. It is important to know that sometimes, painkillers or sedatives. It causes a severe headache with the addiction, depression and memory loss. Was the result of complications from the use of analgesics or sedatives as well.
Common type of headache disorder typically have four main categories as follows.
First. Disease, migraine headaches (Migraines).
Two. Disease Headache from tension (Tension headache).
Three. Disease Headache clusters (Cluster headache).
Four. Disease Headache of high pressure in the brain (Increase Intracranial Pressure).
Disease, migraine headaches (Migraines).
Migraine attacks.
A migraine headache is a pain in women than men in the ratio 2 to 1 type headache pain is spasmodic. Pain one sides achingly pain was beating like a pulse. Also have nausea, vomiting, blurred vision, or seeing light included. The pain occurs for 2-3 hours and then be militated. After that there will be a new pain. And there will be paining in this consecutive once daily. Or several times per week.
For the cause of migraine headaches is not exactly flat.
Factors that motivate a migraine headache.
• Foods with preservatives peanut butter chocolate vasodilators.
• prolonged fasting blood sugar is low.
• Sleep is the time. Due to shift work. Or travel abroad with a discrepancy with Thailand and so on.
• female hormones. Menstruation or pregnancy in its early stages.
• hot sunny fragrance smell smoke from a pipe to smoke it.
Diagnosis of migraine headache.
Be diagnosed from the history of the pain. Neurological examination. Including diseases of the brain or spinal cord, which found that nausea and vomiting on exercise will be more pain. These symptoms are typical of migraine attacks as if the body and nervous system, and cannot find anything wrong with the brain at the same time, there is no indication of pain. Doctors diagnosed it as a migraine headache.
Severe headache from stress (Tension Headache).
Symptoms of stress. Is a very common condition in general is about 80 to 90 percent of people with headache. Stress caused it. Found in adults than children. And found in women than men. Which has many causes, such as the brain, hard work, emotional stress, anxiety, or sleep enough, etc. I do not have pain, muscle tightness in the neck and around the head.
Characteristic
Patients will have a dull heavy pain in the neck or occipital pain, or may be a tie around his head. Some dull pain around the head. And most often a pain in the afternoon or evening, there will be no pain after waking up in the morning. If you have a moment to rest and respite may disappear by itself. Note that it is. Pain is often a few hours. It's going to be the relief. Do not find anything unusual in any way. Including blood pressure. Will remains normal.
Guideline
First. Headaches from stress. Condition is not severe, but it may be lost, however, as often before diagnosis. Be sure to measure the pressure. And ask questions to ensure that there are no symptoms to Twenties cause serious before.
Two. Disease should be separated from migraine. It will look like pulsating pain on my left temple, but sometimes not clearly separated. Nonetheless. Primary cares is no different.
Three. Brain tumor in the early stages, there may be no more headache. Had similar headaches from stress. However, the pain is more frequent and stronger. Pain usually late at night or early in the morning. So startled. And therefore, if the person with a chronic headache or in such manner as it disappeared for more than two weeks should be advised to go to hospital.
4th. For those who have a headache from stress. Should encourage adequate rest. I concentrated on the job too. Regular exercise. And find a way to relieve stress in various ways.
Severe headache or cluster headache on one side.
Cluster headache (cluster headache) is a severe pain in one side. Often achingly painful to the eye socket, or around the eye or temple area. And is usually unilateral. Pain may be caused by a range of about 10 to 200 minutes, and pain may occur every other day. Or pain, often several times a day, but for the most part. Usually occurs 1-2 times a day.
However, the characteristics of this headache. It was several days up to several weeks. And the pain of missing a month or maybe a year and then returned to a new With that in some cases the symptoms may include watery eyes, nasal congestion, runny nose, sweating forehead. The eyelids and face are swelling. May have ptosis. And pupil constriction.
The medical found. This cluster headache. Common in males than females to 5-6 times and is less than 10-50 migraines.
Therapy.
Because this disease is sometimes only 10 minutes and lost the use of drugs may not be necessary. However, in cases that are much more likely to be treated with medication. Or block nerve pain because food. Cluster headaches suffer a lot. If left unattended, it may be causing for suicide.
Must be separated from other patients. Such as high pressure in the brain.
Headache disorder of high pressure in the brain (Increase Intracranial Pressure).
Headache. Due to high pressure in the brain. Is caused by a clot. Or abnormalities within the brain. Events such as the brain grows. Bleeding in the brain. Water retention in the brain. Or infections in the brain, etc. Patients in this group will have a variety of symptoms. And sometimes cause diagnostic delays and severe headache, high pressure in the brain. Treatment cans vary from severe headache in another group entirely.
Due to the specific cause of the high pressure in the brain. Must treat the cause. And often cured. If too slow disease progression have significantly negative effect on the damage to brain tissue. Or death.
Diagnosis
Because patients in this group. The causes of irregularity within the brain, thus making MRI or CT Scan, which is necessary to detect the cause.
Sometimes it may have to pour water into cultured neurons. For pressure Or sepsis.
Treatment
Should treat the cause of the malfunction in the brain, which makes early treatment is usually effective. And safer.