Doctors around the world allocate 7 basic types of headaches.
1. Migraine. Is characterized by recurrent pain on one side of the head. Lasts from 4 to 8 hours. Migraine is often accompanied by dizziness, nausea, photophobia (photophobia). Sometimes the beginning of an attack is preceded by visual anomalies in the form of bright colored rings and bands. Often there is a tingling sensation in the body.
How to treat. Doctors say that a migraine is poorly treated with medicines. Need strong painkillers. However, given that this type of headache often occurs due to some external impact (monotone loud sounds, odors, including cigarette smoke), the treatment can consist in avoiding risk factors.
2. The vapor pressure of pain. The most common type. Becomes chronic in 3% of cases. Uneasiness felt as strong or pressure over the entire circumference of the upper part of the head. Orbit and forehead muscles are tense, but despite this, unable to relax. Duration of pain vapor pressure - from 20-30 minutes to several days. Especially strong pain occur in the late afternoon.
How to treat. You can use any pain relievers (eg, acetaminophen or ibuprofen). If the pain lasts a few days, is to do light exercises - workout (massage), neck and shoulders. And still have to spend more time outdoors and do not protect themselves from stress.
3. Cluster pain. Their experience predominantly male (80%). Characterized by throbbing pain in the front of the head, close to the eyes. Manifested attacks lasting from 10-15 minutes to one hour. Accompanied by a tear, redness of the eyeballs and eyelids, runny nose, rush of blood to the head. Can reach such a pitch that a person can not move normally and even talk. These pains can suddenly appear and just as suddenly go (almost without a trace).
How to treat. Cluster pain is quite difficult to be treated. If a person is caught prolonged attack, used oxygen therapy (breathing through a mask). Injection prescribed by doctors.
4. The Hangover. Symptoms commonly known and apparent.
How to treat. Take the tablet paracetamol and good sleep.
5. brain tumor. Restless people and hypochondriacs often associated headaches with brain cancer. In fact, only 4-5-year-percent tumor formation characteristic of such pain.
How to treat. Depending on the size, location and type of the formation.
6. Intracranial bleeding. Upon receipt of a head injury, a person does not always and not immediately realize that the vessels of the head injured. At these moments, wounded experiencing sudden pain growing in almost any area of the head. Often a manifestation of intracranial hemorrhage detected in a few hours, it is quite dangerous. Sometimes the injury is accompanied by loss of coordination, speech and vision. A person can lose consciousness.
How to treat. The doctor has to remove blood that has accumulated in the skull, as hematoma begins to put pressure on the medulla and may damage it. Careful examination of cerebral vessels.
7. Temporal arteritis. Appears most often in the elderly. If it is not time to begin treatment can lead to blindness. Severe headache may arise against the background of insomnia, weight loss, prolonged depression, fever and redness of the scalp. Parallel to the shoulders and neck ache.
How to treat. Receiving steroid drugs that stop inflammation of blood vessels. If you have problems with vision therapy should take ophthalmologist.