HEADACHE

All people have experienced head ache,but not everyone knows that a lot of headache type depending on the cause of the stimulation with manifestations headache. Commoncauses of headache caused by there are internal and external defects in the head. Internal disorder caused by stimulation of vascular and brain membranes. Abnormalities due to external caused by stimulation of vascular and musclecontraction of head.
Both these disorders can occur due to injury ( concussion), infections, tumors and other diseases in the head.


Specific cause of headache is a headache due to stimulation of the blood vessels, headache due to stimulation of the brain membranes and headache due to other diseases.

1. Headache due to stimulation of blood vessels.

A. Cluster headache.
This headache emerged due to trigeminal nerve stimulation (in the forehead edge ). This stimulation by the bottle neck in the blood vessels in the neck area towards the head, resulting in turbulent flow from bottom to top ( this is what stimulates the flow of trigeminal nerve ).Thisheadache was also influenced by the brain activity that is not normal, one of them caused by stress.

Clinical symptoms :

• Often appear at night and can last for several weeks or months, but then disappeared for several years.
• The pain only occurs in certain areas, usually around the eyes.
• Continuous pain and felt great, no pulse.
• Generally experience nasal congestion and the tears.
• Patients are usually restless.

B. Migraine.
Migraine headaches caused by brain chemistry decrease of serotonin. To replace serotonin, the brain's release another chemical called neuropeptides, but these neuropeptides can cause blood vesselsdilated and inflamed, causing a migraine. Location migraine often on one sideof your head, depending on where the location of trouble in right side or leftside brain.

Clinical symptoms of migraine headache :

• More common happened on women aged under 40 years old.
• Attacks occur more often at the condition of physical less fit.
• In women is often associated with menstruation ( a few daysbefore, during or after menstruation ).
• The nature of pain at first light on one side of the head, then turned into a throbbing pain and extends to the whole head.
• Location of the head which often affected are the forehead and forehead edge area.
• The attack can come is recuring, until two or four times permonth and duration about one or two days.
• The existence of early signs of called is aura, may be afear of seeing the light, sound and vascular changes, which can be ascertainedfrom the hands and feet got cold - arrived, pale skin and nausea accompanied by vomiting.

2. Headache due to stimulation of the brain membranes.
Headache which the most powerful, one of them is a headache caused by meningitis ( bacterial or viral infection that attacks the lining ofthe brain ). When happened this headache and did not disappear within 3 days if given medication, bring to your doctor immediately, because if it had a high fever and seizures can be fatal and cause death.

Clinical symptoms :

• Pain in the head and long lasting.
• After a few days later, then patient will experience a highfever and convulsions, and consciousness suddenly began to deteriorate.
• Headache due to muscle contraction.
• Everyone has experienced this type of headache, caused by excessive contraction of muscles at the muscles of the scalp continues overtime. Pain due to muscle contraction - muscle heads can be transferred to the head of a deeper and vasoconstriction will cause the blood vessels occurs headoutside. The most common cause is a muscle contraction in the forehead, neck and forehead edge.

4. Headache due to other diseases.
This disorder known as secondary headache is cause there are abnormality the other organs in the head ( abnormalities of the eyes and nose ) or other diseases in the brain ( tumor, aneurysm / varicose veins of the brain,blood clots or pus in the brain ). These disorders will occur where changes in existing tissue structures in the head. This pain of head is intermittent and the pain more intense.

A. Headache due to irritation of the nose.
Membranes in the nose and sinuses are sensitive to all pain. If there is infection or irritation in the nose area, usually causing the headache will be transferred to the back of the eye or forehead, but pain is not too great. Therefore, flu and sinusitis sufferers often accompanied by headache.

B. Headache due to abnormality of refraction in the eye.
The difficulty to focus the eye for clearer vision will cause excessive contraction of eye muscles, and reflex contraction of facial muscles, which can cause headache in the behind of eyes.

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