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Headache treatments

Headache treatmentsHeadache cannot be cured completely, but reducing the frequency and severity of pain and cutting the pain is also very important.

headache treatment


With headaches due to fever, hot-cold, patients need to drink antipyretic, analgesic. If headaches because of side effects of medications, you should stop taking or change medications. 

There are many causes of headaches. Secondary cause is the diseases such as fever, trauma, vascular disease, metabolism, nerve inflammation, ear, eye, nose, throat, dental disease, due to the medication, due to environment, etc. Primary headaches are usually migraine, each cluster headache, tress headaches (tension, muscle contraction)

With secondary headaches, finding the disease is quite easy. If febrile headache, feeling hot, cold, you should use antipyretic, analgesis medicine. Headaches caused by inflammation, antibiotics, anti-inflammatory drugs; pain due to side effects, you should stop taking or change medications. Patients often use specific drugs for major disease associated with suitable nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. When the main disease disappears, the headache also ends.

With migraine, you must find the cure depends on each person. The principle is that avoiding the stimulus, stress, cure positive pain, prophylactic measures. The patients can identify symptoms of migraine. With this patient, having to use metoclopramide immediately to reduce nausea (if have), if not, you can use fresh ginger instead.

Erogotamin or dihydroergotamin (with a lot of specifics such as tamik, seglor, rigetamin, cormetamin, etc) maintains the balance of cerebral vasomotor and serotonin antagonists, treats migraine basically, vasomotor headaches, trauma, chronic venous insufficiency, CNS disorders.

Drugs have many forms: aerosols, pills, suppositories, injections. Do not use for people have liver disease, severe kidney, heart, arteriosclerosis, coronary insufficiency, pregnant women or in combination with erythromycin, troleandomycin, josamycin. Side effects include nausea, vomiting (do not drink when you are hungry), do not use for nursing mothers.

Each cluster headache occurs in a certain time, usually at 1 am, a few times each year. The pain in the eyes, temples, watery eyes, the pain increases intensely after 15 minutes, someone wants to commit suicide because of unbearable. Then, it becomes a chronic headache and can occur any time. To block the pain, you should use verapami in combination with ergotamine.


Headache caused by stress are the most common form, accounting for 70% of acute headaches. women tend to suffer more than men and family factors. Pain can be in two sides of head, not fix, sharp pain 1-2 regions or spreading, endlessly prolonged, smoldering, strangled compression. The pain occurs normally, the patient work lazily, depression, fatigue, insomnia, sleep early. Most patients use conventional painkillers themselves and sedative drugs. However, prolonged use will cause many side effects.

For treatment, the thing is you need to address stress, psychotherapy, stress reduction combined with massage, ralaxation, qi gong. Amitriptyline is used in combination with low-dose aspirin or paracetomol, ice sore areas. Using your hand to find the most painful region, you can find 1-2 points, using ice packs to those points 15-20 minutes, 2 times per day, the pain will gradually reduce and end. The method can be apply to all types of headaches that is not afraid of any side effects.

It is the best when having headache, patients should be examined, careful examination to exclude intracranial pathologic lesions and medications as directed by your doctor. Headache is a begin disease but usually relapses and cannot be cured completely. Although, headache cannot be cured completely, but reducing the frequency and severity of pain and cutting the pain is also very important.


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