Headaches are so common that they have become one of life’s problems. Going out in extreme atmosphere or hot humid or cold weather can trigger a headache. Sometimes bad dietary habits are also responsible. Emotional stress, tense family relations, and overwork is also the causative factor.
Many people find that caffeine causes sharp, painful headaches; while others who are more tolerant to caffeine's effects may not notice any pain at all. Certain chemicals, painting, smoking, or eating certain foods can bring on headaches to people who are sensitive to those things. Physical factors such as menstruation, blood sugar level, and blood pressure can also cause severe headaches.
The main thing is that most of the people don’t want to get to the reasons of headaches but are used to eating few pain-relievers and get back to work. But this is actually wrong and you should first get to the cause and type first.
1. Tension headaches:
These are caused mostly by physical or psychological stress (or both) from muscles contractions around the eyes, face, neck and even shoulders; or an imbalance in some of the naturally occurring neuro-transmitters or brain chemicals. The treatment is to go for relaxation methods like yoga and meditation.
2. Cluster headaches: These are also known as histamine caphalgia and cause an excruciating pain on one side of the head around the eye or nose. They may recur several times within a couple of days. Sometimes they are variants of migraine headaches, but may also be due to histamine release, and therefore, be related to allergic sinusitis. Extreme conditions require to take antibiotics.
3. Sinusitis: This inflammation of the lining of one of the eight sinus cavities can cause a deep, dull, chronic ache around the eyes, nose and head. Deep inhalations may help solve the problem.
4. Rebound headache: Overuse of pain medication, caffeine or sedatives causes rebound headaches when these substances wear off. The result is usually greater discomfort. Mild to moderate dull pain, or diffuse pain over the forehead or back of the head is what can be experienced. The best way out is to avoid the conditions responsible.
5. Migraine headaches: These are severe, debilitating and recurrent, are accompanied by disturbances of vision and/or nausea and vomiting. There is no single cause of migraine. In some cases, migraine
may be brought on singly or in combination by stress, food (particularly chocolate, cheese and other dairy products, red wine, fried food and citrus fruits), sensory related factors (bright light, glare, loud noises), menstruation or birth control pills.
So, if you are suffering from a headache, best thing is to know the exact reason and get the treatment according to it.
