The headache always banal?

Headaches are they harmless? Nine of 10 patients who consult a physician for headache, suffer from headaches or migraines. In which case further examination is Enough?

Distinguishes between "ordinary headache", "secondary headaches" and migraines. The first, most frequent, are transient and cause discomfort more or less important. Their cause is exogenous.

However, some headache, ordinary-looking, unusually long or repeated, have an organic origin: headaches that are secondary. They should then lead to a medical.

As for migraines, it is not not only headache but also a disease called general we will not discuss here.

The common headache

These are generally small pathologies related to the environment. The brain areas involved are usually frontal or temporal, occipital or more rarely orbital.

It is difficult to state the causes and aggravating factors of the common headache. It is among the main

• Noise and continuous throbbing;
• The bright lights of solar or artificial origin;
• The active and passive smoking;
• Alcohol;
• Other causes colds, rhinitis, colds and flu-like illness - gravity consistent confining sometimes headache. Other factors such as fatigue may be seen both as causes and consequences.
  

The usual reaction to a headache usually through self-medication, including the taking of analgesics, of anti-inflammatory, of sleeping pills, etc. It is important for the patient to always refer to cons-formal indications.

The best approach is to adopt a healthy lifestyle:

• A good quality sleep in the twilight or darkness;
• The practice of relaxation;
• Hunting and excessive physical exercise tailored to the age and capabilities of each can also afford to work in the field.
  

These rules remain for the time being the most effective way to prevent most of these headaches normal.

Headache to consider carefully

Headaches can be caused by outbreaks of specific pain (sinusitis, ear infections, eye inflammation, etc..). In case of headache of organic origin, medical check-ups are necessary.

Headaches young children should be considered carefully. Thus, when the child shows his head and seems to suffer, we must suspect a headache in the same way that an earache or teething. A medical examination when required.

In the case of young children usually prostrate, somewhat reactive behavior and abnormally indifferent, it should be particularly careful. A misleading appearance can, in these cases, conceal a real pain.

Dr. Alain Dubos

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Home Remedies
 

Secrets of Migraine : Ayurveda
 

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