What is the cause of headache?

summary

Headache, also known as headache, is one of the common clinical symptoms. Headache is a common problem in life, so many people think it is a small problem. In general, occasional headache will not have too big a problem. However, if you have a headache for a long time, you should pay attention to it, because long-term headache or frequent headache may be the precursor of serious illness. So what causes headaches?

What is the cause of headache?

Lack of sleep: This is one of the common causes of headache, such as staying up late the first night or insomnia. When you get up the next day, you will have a splitting headache. I believe many people have this phenomenon. In fact, this is not the cause of the disease, at this time as long as we improve the quality of sleep, headache will disappear.

External stimulation: if our body and mind are stimulated by the external environment, we will have depression, anxiety and other bad emotions, which will lead to the attack of headache. A survey shows that 84% of depression patients have migraine symptoms. Usually we have some unpleasant things in our work or study, which can also produce negative emotions and lead to headaches.

Physical compression: refers to the symptoms of headache caused by inflammation, injury or tumor compression of the painful tissues inside and outside the head, which are specifically manifested as: meningeal stimulation, vasodilation, vascular traction, extension, displacement, expansion, muscle contraction, etc. Exceptional environmental factors can also lead to headaches: in fact, sometimes it is not your body that has problems, but the environment that you are in has changed, which leads to headaches. For example, when we fly, we will have headaches when we take off. This is a kind of vascular headache caused by the expansion of blood vessels in the brain. Of course, it is the same when we go to the plateau.

matters needing attention

Headache is a common disease, but patients should not ignore the severity of headache, once there is a long-term serious headache, we need to quickly carry out physical examination, especially the brain CT, as soon as possible to find out the cause, as soon as possible treatment, at the same time, daily also pay more attention to their diet.