9 serious signals in headache
Headache is usually caused by stress, hard work and insomnia. However, headache can sometimes be the first or even the only symptom of life-threatening diseases such as brain tumors, cerebral hemorrhage and aneurysm.
ISTANBUL - It's hard to find people who have never had a headache in their lives. 95 percent of women and 90 percent of men suffer from headaches at least once a year. Although the incidence rate varies in societies, the most common type of tension headache is 30-40 percent, and the second is migraine, which affects one out of every 4-5 people. Although headaches that are affected by life habits such as emotional stress, working for long periods of stress, eating irregularly and insomnia negatively affect daily life, they are not dangerous. However, there are some types of headaches that can be the first and sometimes only symptom of life-threatening serious diseases such as brain tumors, cerebral hemorrhage or aneurysms. Neurology Specialist Beyza Çitçi Yalçınkaya explained the 9 headache signals that should never be missed.
IN HEADACHE THESE SIGNALS DO NOT Neglect!
Dr. Beyza Çiftçi Yalçınkaya warned that the following headache signals should be a harbinger of life-threatening diseases. Here are those signals:
1. Very severe and sudden onset headaches: Subarachnoid hemorrhage is suspected if the person describes headache for the first time in his life, which is very severe and reaches its maximum in about 1 minute. Subarachnoid hemorrhage is caused by the rupture of aneurysms, which can be described as ballooning due to anomalies in the vascular walls of the brain. Headache by some patients, '' something exploded in my head, '' is also expressed as. The patient had no complaints, sudden and severe headache, changes in consciousness, drowsiness, nausea, vomiting, light sensitivity, epilepsy (epilepsy) seizures. Approximately one quarter of patients can be lost within the first 24 hours. Therefore, the patient needs to be delivered to the hospital immediately.
2. Increasingly intense and persistent headache: Although headache is common even without an underlying dangerous disease, it should be considered if the pain is increasing. A young woman who smokes and takes birth control pills may be a sign of a rapidly progressive headache, such as cerebral sinus thrombosis caused by clotting in the veins of the brain.
3. Headache caused by sneezing, squeezing, sexual activity or exertion: The occurrence of headache due to increased intracranial pressure such as exercise, sneezing or squeezing suggests a space occupying the head. Brain tumors, aneurysms can cause this type of headache, as well as more common in young-middle-age obese women, cerebrospinal fluid caused by increased pressure, such as pseudotumor cerebri can cause it.
4. Headache after head trauma: Especially after severe head trauma such as traffic accidents, fractures of the bones of the head, bleeding in the brain tissue or between the membranes may occur. Less frequently, hemorrhage in the form of brain membranes does not present at the beginning of the symptoms and days, even months after the trauma, headache and balance disorder may occur with symptoms such as.
5. Headache accompanied by neurological symptoms such as numbness, weakness, visual impairment, and speech difficulties in the arms and legs: The presence of these neurological signs with headache indicates a problem in brain tissue. In addition to the above diseases, for example, 10 percent of stroke patients may have headaches prior to stroke.
6. Headaches that do not improve despite treatment: Structural changes in the brain such as lesions taking place in the head, tumor, increase in intracranial pressure, central nervous system infections, and many irritating diseases can be seen as resistant headaches.
7. Headache is always in the same area: It can occur as a result of the lesion occupying space.
8. High fever, drowsiness, confusion or body rash accompanied by: Meningitis is an inflammatory disease caused by infectious agents of the membranes surrounding the brain and encephalitis. Almost all of these patients have headaches with increasing severity. Headache with high fever, weakness, drowsiness must necessarily suggest that the brain is affected by infection. Infections of the central nervous system are also diseases that can be fatal or cause disability.
9. New headaches in advanced age: Temporal arteritis, a dangerous disease affecting individuals over 50 years. Moderate or severe headaches may be accompanied by symptoms such as weakness, joint pain, decreased vision, fatigue while chewing. Failure to treat early may cause permanent vision loss and brain damage. Again, headaches that occur in advanced ages should bring to mind brain vascular diseases and brain tumors.
DEVELOPED DRUGS CAN VIOLATE THE DISEASE
Headaches caused by dangerous diseases do not respond much to painkillers. However, it may temporarily improve or reduce the severity of pain in some of the pains and delay the diagnosis and treatment. Another important danger is brain hemorrhage, for example, some blood-thinning drugs that exacerbate the bleeding. Therefore, instead of looking for a solution for this type of headache, people should consult a doctor as soon as possible. Today's modern technological devices can easily identify the causes of headaches.
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