| One of the most frustrating and excruciating | | | | people suffer from. Characterized by a tight band |
| experiences any person has to go through is | | | | of pressure around a person's head, heavy |
| headache. Aside from the painful sensations felt in | | | | throbbing of temples, light and sound sensitivity, |
| the several areas of the head like temples, scalp | | | | vomiting, general muscle aches, difficulty in falling |
| and the forehead, headache may bring pain to the | | | | asleep and staying asleep, chronic fatigue, |
| different parts of the face, throat, and mouth | | | | irritability and disturbed concentration, tension |
| because of the series of nerves that extends one | | | | headache is said is traced from physical or |
| another. | | | | emotional stress. |
| Before taking in any medication or undergoing any | | | | Major lifestyle adjustments like having a regular |
| treatment to bring relief to your aching head, | | | | physical activity or exercise, proper and balanced |
| make sure that you know first what are the | | | | diet, proper stress management and maintaining |
| different types of headache and possible causes | | | | good posture can help a person a lot to avoid |
| of the common illness. | | | | tension headache. |
| HOW ARE HEADACHES CATEGORIZED | | | | If tension headache is the most common type of |
| Studies show that 90 percent of all types of | | | | headache, cluster headache is the least common |
| headaches are classified as tension and muscle | | | | of all types. Greatly affecting men instead of |
| contraction. However, there most experts would | | | | women, cluster headaches are characterized by |
| agree that headache could be further classified | | | | severe pain usually centered in one eye that leads |
| into two broad categories: the primary and the | | | | to swelling and watering of the affected area and |
| secondary. | | | | severe and unbearable pain in the head. |
| "Primary headache" includes migraine, cluster, and | | | | Triggered by alcohol and cigarettes, experts say |
| tension headache. Migraine headache are usually | | | | that there is no concrete cause of this type yet. |
| characterized by throbbing pain on one side of the | | | | Treatment may include taking in medications |
| head, queasiness, over sensitivity to light and | | | | similar to those used for migraine like sumatriptan, |
| sound especially to bright lights and loud noises. | | | | triptans, and the like. |
| Statistics say that 18 to 28 million Americans | | | | The other classification of headache is called |
| suffer from migraines and majority of which is | | | | "secondary headaches." Usually triggered by an |
| women. | | | | underlying or existing disorder like infection, injury, |
| Aside from throbbing or pulsing pain, migraine is | | | | or tumor, secondary headaches are known to be |
| also characterized by visual disturbances, | | | | results major illnesses. |
| numbness of the face, nausea, and heavy | | | | Secondary headaches are also considered as side |
| vomiting. Usually triggered by food, stress, heat | | | | effects of various disorders like a recent head |
| or cold temperature, strong smells, emotions, | | | | injury, meningitis, sinus infection, brain tumor, eye |
| fatigue, or hormonal fluctuations, experts say that | | | | diseases, spinal injury, arthritis, and the |
| people who are anxious and depressed are more | | | | inflammation of the arteries or temporal arteritis. |
| prone to migraine. | | | | In order to treat any types of headaches, make |
| Tension headache, on the other hand, is | | | | sure you get your physician's advice first. |
| considered as the common type of headache | | | | |