We have a headache from migraine or injury. It hurts when we caught a cold, not sinuses, flu and many other infections or when we were poisoned or have hypertension.
List of diseases and causes in which the headache is a symptomatic accompanying symptom:
♦ Cold infections, including influenza
♦ Local infections within the skull for the ears, paranasal sinuses, teeth, etc.
♦ Headaches as a result of degenerative changes in the neck and neck.
♦ Hypertension and other vascular disorders
♦ Meningitis
♦ Cranio, etc.
♦ Post-traumatic pain
♦ Brain tumors
♦ Poisoning with toxic substances
♦ Sight diseases
How to recognize a "cold" headache?
When we "catch" us a cold, and especially the real flu, we often complain of a headache. Severe headache is a symptom dominating almost every flu. We refer to it as "breaking the head". It is severe and disappears only with the end of the disease.
Sinusitis - a common cause of headache
Sometimes after a cold, wetting or "zawijanie" appears a runny nose, which is accompanied by a persistent headache located in the vicinity of the sinuses. The cause of pain are viral or bacterial infections causing chronic inflammation of the mucous membranes of the paranasal sinuses. The symptom is a dull headache with characteristic pressure intensifying in the morning or evening hours.
Acute rhinosinusitis - course and treatment
Periostitis, gangrene in a tooth causes headaches
A frequent cause of headache is the inflammation of the tooth and periosteum. Headaches are then the result of the radiation of the inflammatory process with the so-called neighborhood. The most often painfully radiates inflammation of the area of the molars. Also, gangrene of the teeth causes severe pain in the head.
Headaches as a result of degenerative changes in the neck and neck
These headaches are accompanied by neck pains and dizziness. They usually occur between 40 and 60 years of age. Sometimes patients describe it as radiating pain. It usually begins after performing the actions related to tilting the head towards the back.
Headache and hypertension
High hypertension can provoke a headache. This may be indicated by the so-called morning migraines - morning hypertension reaches the highest values. If we have a measuring apparatus and we conduct self-control of blood pressure - then we can confirm our diagnosis ourselves. But attention - similar grounds have headaches that arise with the coexistence of adrenal tumors (pheochromocytoma). This condition leads to an increase in blood pressure.
Pheochromocytoma - the cause of hypertension?
Temporal arteritis
inflammatory changes in the head vessels, mainly in the temporal region. The origin of this disease is unknown.
Meningitis and headache
The disease starts with a strong headache. It is usually accompanied by stiff neck - determined by physicians in the neurological examination as a meningeal symptom. The disease also has high fever, chills, nausea and vomiting.
Ectopic viral encephalitis
Bacterial meningitis
Neuralgia of the cranial nerves - due to inflammation or damage.
Particularly particularly characteristic are:
- facial neuralgia: characterized by paroxysmal pain on one side of the face, which lasts 1-2 minutes and repeats several times a day
- Arnold's neuralgia: the pain is similar to short electric discharges occurring against a background of constant pain.(refers to Arnold's nerve, which begins on the back of the neck, from the right or left side and runs through the top of the head to the eyebrow)
Post-traumatic pain
PTSD is misleading - it does not always appear immediately after the injury - it can also appear after a few weeks or months.
Brain tumors and a headache
Circumcised fear of a brain tumor expressed by the words - "my head hurts constantly - maybe it's a brain tumor?" - is unfounded. Brain tumors start with other symptoms than a headache, e.g. from paralysis or sight disorders or epileptic seizures. However, some symptoms may indicate a brain tumor in a person complaining of headaches. These include the emergence of sudden pain in people over 40 years of age. with accompanying vomiting.
The most common chemical poisoning inducing headache is:
- abuse of alcohol, cigarettes
- toxin poisoning - carbon monoxide (carbon monoxide), ethyl alcohol, methyl alcohol
- poisoning with paints and varnishes: for example, benzene, nitrobenzene
Note - unrecognized eye diseases can cause headaches.
A particularly severe headache occurs in the case of untreated glaucoma.
ed. Edward Ozga Michalski, MA
consultation with med. Tomasz Rosochowicz
