Headaches
Many people suffer from headaches from time to time, but frequent and daily headaches are a chronic headache and cause the person to be unable to do his daily work, so the cause of the headache must be known to be treated or at least mitigated. Chronic headache is defined as a headache that occurs daily for 15 days during a month for at least three months. Headaches may last for long or short periods. Long shifts last four hours, while short headaches do not exceed several hours a day.
Headaches
There are many types of headaches, and each type is different from other specific symptoms, the following are the most common types of chronic headaches and symptoms, and most prevalent:
Chronic migraines
- Affects one or two sides of the head.
- Feeling pulses in the head.
- Moderate to severe pain.
- Pain increases when physical exertion occurs.
- The person may feel nauseous, vomiting, and a sense of light and sound.
Chronic tension headache
- Affects the sides of the head.
- Feeling similar to pressure on the head, or tension.
- Pain does not increase when you do physical activities.
- The patient may feel that his or her skull is soft.
Chronic daily headache
- It happens mostly on both sides of the head.
- Pain is similar to the pain of tension headaches, but it occurs suddenly.
- The pain is mild to moderate.
- Not affected by physical activity.
Persistent migraine headaches
- Affects one side of the head.
- The pain occurs on a daily and continuous basis so that the person does not get a rest from the pain.
- The pain is moderate, punctuated by severe pain.
- Responds to treatment with indomethacin.
- This may be accompanied by one of the following: redness or redness of the eye from the head of the infected, and congestion or Silana to the nose, and narrowing the pupil or dangling eyelid.
Causes of chronic headache
The causes of all types of chronic headaches can not be explained. In general, the causes of direct headaches can not be determined, but the indirect causes can be identified, including:
- The inflammation of the blood vessels located around the brain, and other problems facing these vessels, such as stroke.
- Microbial infections and infections such as meningitis.
- Intraocular or intracranial pressure may be caused by high or low pressure.
- Brain tumor.
- The brain is exposed to infection.
- Use of overly analgesic drugs, ie, taking analgesics twice a week, especially for those suffering from migraines or tension headaches.
Risk factors
Certain people are more likely to have frequent and chronic headaches than others:
- Women are at greater risk of headaches than men.
- Anxiety, and tension.
- Depression.
- Sleep disorders.
- Overweight.
- Snoring.
- Eat too much caffeine.
- The presence of other chronic pain.