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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Headaches and its Dangerous Types

The article will discuss a question that often sounds from lips of patients who come to the therapist or the neuropathology. As you have already guessed, this problem concerns headache. Practically we know that headache is not serious. More often we dampen it with a soothing tablet and we forget about this temporary discomfort. A person visits the doctor because of headache only in very extreme cases.

The headache differs by its variety. It is subdivided into long, sharp, intolerable and it is capable "to seize" the whole head or, for example, just its temporal part.

If to speak about nagging bilateral headache, it appears more often as a result of arterial hypotonia. A person starts feeling it since morning. Such a pain appears in the field of temples. Physical activities, use of tea or coffee will help get rid of this kind of headache.

There is also so-called psychogenic headache. This pain appears as a result of mental or physical pressure, stress or depression. During such a condition a person feels pain around the head. And the force and character of headache varies constantly. To cure such a pain it is possible just by means of corresponding experts.

Increased arterial pressure or atherosclerosis of brain vessels can cause a very strong sudden headache. The pain is so acute that a patient can even lose consciousness. To tell the truth, such a pain is very dangerous. It is able to kill a person literally. For this reason at such a headache, urgently call a doctor.

Imitrex (Sumatriptan) an effective headache drug, considered to act by contracting the blood vessels close to the brain and immediately cuts down chemicals in the body that can activate headache ail, sickness, predisposition to illumination.

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