Headache
Approximately ten to 15 percent of the world’s population suffer. Headaches are now recognized as stress-related illness civilization. Good news for your head: In recent decades, the pain research made great strides – in accordance with good treatment options.
Headache
Headaches can have diverse causes. The problem: cause and symptoms are often far apart in time, what an assignment – and treatment – the pain more difficult.
For headaches often observed is a creeping start, sometimes already in childhood. With increasing age to reach the headache then an intensity that the person no longer can cope with alone. Play a key role, often the living circumstances of patients:
Awake and sleeping rhythm
Food, especially the consumption of beverages such as alcohol and nicotine
Toxins in the house, for example solvents, but also at the “fresh” air
Familial pressures, anger or stress at work
Weather turnaround to intense sun exposure
Sudden headache in previous complaint freedom, however, have mostly medical causes, for example:
a concussion or bleeding after a fall
an allergy
an infection
taking new drugs
Two Faces of headache: migraine and tension headache
There are various forms of headache: The most famous is the migraine. Their guiding the reactions such as nausea and vomiting, visual and olfactory disturbances, light or sound sensitivity precede. Typical is a mostly long hours, pulsating, with a nagging pain plateauartigen summit. Sometimes migraine attacks also on the other side of the head on.
Besides tension headache of migraine headache is the most common form. They can both psychological (stress, anxiety, overwork) as well as physical causes (for example, muscle tension in the neck), but also by the weather (for example, hair dryer) factors. Characteristic are two-sided headache. The patients are stunned, unable to get and performance. Symptoms such as nausea missing against. The pain is often triggered by stress and goes back in the day.
How can they be treated
For migraine, a painkiller with an antiemetic (resources, which prevents vomiting) combined. The important thing: First take the antiemetic, then, after about 10 minutes, the pain reliever. The background: In a migraine attack transported the contents of his stomach no further, so that no painkillers into the bloodstream and can be effective. An antiemetic bends before.
And you can do: headache diary
With a headache diary set to actively deal with your headache: Write down when your pain occurs and how long they persist. Write parallel to what situations and physical sensitivities over the day you were confronted. “Situations” could, for example, anger, overwork, stress, menstruation, weather, sun, drugs or alcohol consumption.
On the following physical “sensitivities” to watch: sensitivity to noise, smell sensitivity, ravenous, inner restlessness, irritability, depression, euphoria, agitation, pressure, sleep need, listlessness, creativity, brood.
The aim is to determine what situations or body sensations are increasingly facing a headache attack occur. Try to avoid or control.
