Headaches, A Simple Guide To The Condition, Diagnosis, Treatment And Related Conditions

This book describes Headaches, Diagnosis and Treatment and Related Diseases

Headache is a fairly common complaint in any family doctor clinic.

It is important to ask for nausea, vomiting, stiffness of the neck, fits, stress, lack of sleep, flashes of light in the eyes, and weakness of one side of the body.

I usually check for any high fever (one of the common causes) and high blood pressure.

Quotes about Headaches:

No Brain means No Headache!

The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it.
You either have to laugh or cry
I prefer to laugh
Crying gives me a headache!

Headache is a fairly widespread complaint in patients.
Headache is the most frequent cause of pain, which prompts patients to consult their GP.
Most people often treat themselves using over-the-counter painkiller drugs and many migraine sufferers normally go undiagnosed.
When people exceed the advised dosage on a regular basis, the analgesics can in fact be the cause of headaches.

Children get headaches too.
Even children get headaches, some of them even before the age of 10.
Most children who get migraines have at least one close family member who is suffering from migraines too.
If a child has one parent who suffers from migraines, they have a 50% chance of getting them too and if both are sufferers, this rises to 75%.

Before puberty, headaches are more frequent in boys.
Adult women get headaches four times more often than men and these are linked to hormonal fluctuations.
The severity and frequency of headaches decline with advancing years in both men and women.

Even philosophers get headaches.
The philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, had severe debilitating migraines for much of his life often two or three times a week.

Doctors today think the chances are high that he had a brain tumor which caused these migraines and that explained his reasonably early death at the age of 56.
However, it is important to recognize the more serious types of headaches that are actually symptoms of more serious diseases.

Types of Headaches:
Knowing the kind of headache the patient have is the first step to being able to treat it correctly, and more importantly, one step closer to relief.
It is important to figure out what type of headache is causing the pain.
If the patient knows the headache type, the patient can treat it correctly.

There are 3 types of Headache:

1. Primary headache,
2. Secondary headache, and
3. Cranial neuralgia, facial pain, and other headaches

Common Types of Primary Headaches are:

1. Tension headaches
2. Migraine headaches
3. Cluster headaches

Secondary Headaches are:
A. Sinus headaches:
B. Rebound headaches
C. Referred headaches

Serious Types of Headaches are:

1. Meningitis or Encephalitis headaches
2. Cerebrovascular Accidents (hemorrhagic stroke) headaches
3. Brain Tumors headaches

Relationship of Headaches and the body:

Headaches are mostly harmless
Fasting can cause headaches
Hormones can cause migraines
The pill, headaches and stroke risk
Tension headaches the most common
More Men get cluster headaches
Hangover blues are headaches
Blood vessels are the main culprits
A hole in the head is used to drive headache away
Ice cream headaches are no myth
Steer clear of these triggers (foodstuff and beverages)
What the patient eats could be to blame
Smokers are at higher danger of a rare but scary form of headache (cluster headache)
Rarer causes are a rare blood vessel disease on the temples called temporal arteritis and other autoimmune diseases of the nervous system

This book is compiled from my other books on different headaches

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