Introduction to health care: Most people have experienced this phenomenon. Perhaps because it is too common, some friends often do not take it seriously. However, they do not know that some types of headaches may be a precursor or an indication of the occurrence of some kind of headache. Seriously! The following are 20 types of headaches and their characteristics. How much do you know?

1. Cervicogenic headache

Cervicogenic headache is the most common organic headache in clinical practice. It usually involves laborious and restricted cervical spine movements, neck pain or paracervical tenderness. , patients with long-lasting headaches often have tenderness in the painful area of ????the head. When a headache attacks, they often have symptoms of eye discomfort.

Clinically, most cervical vertebrae can cause headaches. The mobility of the cervical spine varies greatly among individuals and is related to age, occupation, situation, etc. Generally, as age increases, the movement of the neck becomes gradually restricted, making it easier to suffer from cervical spine problems. Pain in the occipital region often occurs, and as age increases, the pain becomes more frequent and requires attention.

2. Drug-induced headaches

For some patients with chronic headaches, the efficacy of analgesics diminishes after long-term use, so that the patient has to gradually increase the dosage of the medication. The more medicine you take, the shorter the headache will be relieved. The more medicine you take, the more severe the headache becomes. This kind of headache caused by improper use of medicine to treat headaches is called drug-induced rebound headache, which occurs with overdose of medicine. related to interference.

3. Sexual headache

It often occurs during physical work or physical work. The pain is usually located on both sides of the temporal region. It can be relieved after resting and reoccurs after exercise. This kind of headache is caused by myocardial infarction. Important signs of ischemia, without timely rest and treatment, can induce and sudden death. This kind of headache should be rested and treated immediately.

4. Brain tumor headache

Headaches caused by brain tumors have special characteristics. The pain level does not fluctuate each time, but it will become increasingly severe as time goes by. , the pain is getting worse and worse. Movement, twisting, coughing, sneezing, lifting objects, etc. can aggravate the pain, which can be relieved by lying down. Nausea and vomiting often occur.

5. Post-traumatic headache

Post-traumatic headache is divided into two types: acute and chronic. Head trauma is generally accompanied by concussion.

Acute post-traumatic headache may result in loss of consciousness or short-term memory loss. It usually occurs within 14 days after waking up and lasts for about 1 to 2 months. It is a throbbing headache, accompanied by nausea, vomiting and stomachache. Intestinal symptoms and dizziness, etc.

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

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This is a very common headache. There are often recurring attacks, and there are obvious predisposing factors before the attack, such as high work or study pressure, tension, anxiety, etc. During an attack, the headache can spread to the neck, shoulders, and back, causing mild to moderate pain, with numbness, hardness, and tightness.

7. Headache caused by intracranial

1. Intracranial hematoma, awake patients may have severe headache due to cerebral hemorrhage and increased intracranial pressure, which is usually accompanied by high blood pressure. Medical history or trauma history;

2 Intracranial space-occupying lesions, the location of the headache is related to the location of the space-occupying lesions;

3 Acute epidural or subdural hematoma, in The intensity of the patient's headache while awake is consistent with increased intracranial pressure. Headaches may be accompanied by systemic symptoms, such as increased pulse rate and sweating;

4. Subarachnoid hemorrhage may cause sudden severe headaches, accompanied by body weight loss; if it is an artery or vein rupture, usually in Headache occurs within 60 minutes after rupture, accompanied by symptoms such as vomiting, unconsciousness, and stiff neck.

8. Cold-febrile headache

Occurs at the beginning of a cold, when the body has a low fever or no fever, but an obvious headache, accompanied by body muscle aches, joint pain, or Nasal congestion, sore throat, runny nose, sneezing, etc.

Recommendation: If you have a simple headache or body aches, it is recommended to use anti-inflammatory analgesics, such as Fenbid acetaminophen, naproxen, Sanlitan, etc. If you have a headache accompanied by symptoms such as nasal congestion and runny nose, it is recommended to use anti-cold drugs such as Crack, Gankang, Combide, Yindefei, etc.

9. Migraine

Migraine is also a common type of headache, characterized by recurring unilateral or bilateral headaches. About 60% of patients have a family history. There are more female than male adult patients, and the number of episodes varies. However, adult female patients are closely related to the menstrual cycle. Generally, the pain is concentrated on one side, the pain is pulsating, and is often accompanied by nausea and vomiting.

10. Sinusitis Headache

All types of sinusitis, especially chronic sinusitis, can cause headaches, and the pain often worsens when blowing the nose forcefully. Depending on the location of the lesion, the location of the headache is also different. For example, if there is a lesion on the frontal sinus, there will be tenderness above the eyes and below the forehead when having a headache; if there is a lesion on the forehead, there will be pain on the cheeks and maxillary teeth. The obvious symptom of sinusitis is that your head feels swollen and like an inflated ball all day long. When I was getting ready to go to 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 fit of coughing.

11. Headache in adolescence

It is more common in young women. Before the attack, there are often signs such as stars in the eyes, dizziness, heartbeat, sweating, and numbness in the hands and feet. It develops quickly and can last for hours or days. There are no symptoms afterwards. The headache is mostly limited to one side of the eye socket, forehead, etc. It is a severe throbbing pain, sometimes spreading to the whole head, and may be accompanied by headache. It usually lessens or disappears after sleep. Female patients mostly have attacks during menstruation, which may be related to endocrine.

12. Functional headache

The headache is swelling or throbbing and fluctuating, and is accompanied by insomnia, dreaminess, fatigue, dizziness, and other symptoms over time. Neurologic headaches are often painful and unspeakable, and no pathological changes can be found during examination. The effect of drug treatment is not significant. Treatment mainly involves overcoming bad mentality, being broad-minded, optimistic, participating in more cultural and sports activities, and appropriately cooperating with sedative and analgesic treatment.

13. Headaches during pregnancy

Headaches in late pregnancy are more common in the occipital and forehead areas, and are accompanied by irritability, insomnia, and then nausea, vomiting, and chest tightness. This is a severe form of pregnancy-induced hyperemia, indicating that the mother and baby are in critical condition. The main reason is that when blood pressure increases, the mother's oxygen supply to the fetus decreases, causing fetal hypoxia, resulting in fetal growth retardation or death from suffocation.

Fourteen. Trigeminal

This kind of headache often occurs acutely, paroxysmally, and has electric shock-like short-term severe pain, which radiates to the face along the branches of the unilateral trigeminal nerve, sometimes It only lasts for a dozen seconds, but it occurs repeatedly, several to dozens of times a day, and can be induced by eating, washing your face, or talking.

15. Summer Headache

The heat is overwhelming. In order to dissipate heat and cool down, the sweat glands lose a lot of water through the evaporation of sweat. If the water is not replenished in time at this time, It will reduce the blood volume of the human body, resulting in insufficient blood supply to the brain, causing headaches. In summer, people are accustomed to drinking cold drinks. Some people have headaches after drinking, which causes submucosal blood vessels to spasm. Although this spasm is short-lived, it cuts off the blood flow that the brain cannot bear, causing headaches. People call it cold drink headache.

16. Hypertensive headache

The headache is accompanied by dizziness, head swelling, and there may also be a feeling of heaviness in the head or tightness in the neck. Headaches mostly occur in the morning and are located in the forehead, occipital or temporal areas. They may be caused by the dilation of blood vessels in the extracranial carotid artery system and the increase in their pulsation amplitude.

17. Headache caused by glaucoma

Headaches are mostly located in the upper part of the orbit or around the eyeball. The main cause is excessive intraocular pressure, accompanied by visual impairment.

18. Five sense headaches

Inflammation or cancer of the eyes, nose, ears, and teeth can cause headaches. For example, otitis media, mastoiditis, rhinitis, and sinusitis cause pain in the forehead and root of the nose; chronic rhinitis or sinusitis causes posterior headaches and neck headaches, etc.

19. Occipital occiput

Occurs in the distribution area of ??the greater and lesser occipital nerves. The local nerves have an inflammatory reaction and induce occipital pain. It is mainly a posterior headache, usually persistent pain, and may involve adjacent parts such as the neck and behind the ears. Hyperalgesia may occur locally, and may also manifest as paroxysmal tingling and tenderness in the affected area.

20. Headaches related to vascular diseases

Approximately 10% of patients with headaches are related to the following two conditions.

1. Transient cerebral ischemia, especially posterior cerebral artery ischemia, is prone to occur.

2. Stenosis and obstruction of the carotid artery or posterior cerebral artery, basilar artery, vertebral artery, etc., which may easily occur when there is insufficient blood supply or ischemia. Moderate persistent, fluctuating headaches in areas corresponding to vascular disease.

Warm reminder: Never take headaches seriously. When you have a headache, you should seek medical treatment promptly to avoid delaying the condition.

I hope everyone can remember the above 20 points. Good health is really important for yourself and your family!

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