5 types of headaches

A headache is the most common type of pain experienced by each person. The pain can be mild to severe in the head, scalp, and sometimes may spread to the neck. While most of these conditions can last for a short time, other types can last for hours and sometimes days. Treatment may include lifestyle changes, relaxation therapy and sometimes medication is needed. The following further clarification of related various kinds and causes of headaches that you should know.

What are the different types of headaches?

Basically, this condition has about 150 kinds. But the most common types include:

1. tense headaches (a tension headache)

This is the most common condition experienced by people. Even many people refer to it as a headache "every day" since almost all people would never experience it in some time of their lives.

You may experience headaches right constantly. Pain on the right side of the head, this is the most common type, though not yet found clarity is definitely the cause. In addition, you may also feel stiff on the back of the neck and shoulder muscles and then spread to the front, and feel pressure behind your eyes along with the pressure on your jaw.

This condition can be on anyone and at any age, but not badly enough to interfere with your daily life. In many cases, the headaches of the right will be lost after 30 minutes to a few days.

2. A migraine

Migraine headache attack was next to a recurring pain that is usually followed by severe and often makes its victims powerless. Many people refer to this condition as a headache next door.

Intense throbbing pain or be extreme pain like being hit by hard objects. However, this condition is classified as a derivative of neurological disorders due to the lower resistance against the stimulus causes migraines, different from a usual headache or cluster.

In addition to feeling the pain of the head side, some people also experience nausea, vomiting, or sensitivity to light or noise. This condition is common because it can affect an estimated 1 out of every 5 women and about 1 out of every 15 people in men.

A next headache is said to be serious when it goes from 4 hours to 3 days and is accompanied by other symptoms are very severe to hinder you to normal activity. A next headache severe if the sufferer is also said to have a history of attacks at least 2-5 times the attack with the same pattern.

3. a cluster headache just like a migraine,

 this condition also causes headaches next door on one side of the head. The difference, the intense pain occurs suddenly and tend to appear on the back of the eye or the area around the eyes.

In addition to the intense pain, other symptoms of this condition are flushed and eyes watering, pupil size, and runny. This condition is common, but the most severe among other types.

Each attack a headache next to can take 15 minutes to 3 hours and often awaken the patient from sleep because the pain can be very bad and intense. The symptoms of this condition can happen every day, and lasts several weeks or months at a time, before the out.

This condition may be missing completely for months or years, but it could be just an occasional back again. Men's 3-4 times more often affected by this condition than women.

4. a sinus headache

The typical symptoms of this condition are an intense and constant pain in the cheekbones, forehead, or the trunks of your nose. Sometimes, the symptoms of pain are felt almost similar to migraine symptoms. This condition is caused due to virus infection, such as the flu virus.

This virus will spread into the sinus cavity from the upper respiratory tract so that in the end caused the walls of the sinuses (small spaces in the part of the skull) is experiencing inflammation.

The pain usually comes along with other sinus symptoms, such as the runny or clogged nose, ears ringing, fever, and sore throat.

5. a hormonal headache

This condition is common among women, especially when approaching or during menopause or menstrual cycle. Other triggers may after pregnancy or when taking birth control pills.

Despite the headaches behind or next to is not life-threatening, but it could be a sign of the presence of more serious health conditions, such as stroke.

That's why, if you suspect have symptoms mentioned above repeatedly and not also failed to improve in quite some time, it's good you immediately to a doctor consultation

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