The symptoms are intense pain in the head first around the eyes or the tip of the head and then cover the whole head or part thereof.
There are several different types of headache. The main types are:
- Tension headaches (known as stress headaches, muscular headaches) –
It is a moderate headache that may last minutes or days and tends to recur. The pain is constant and felt in both sides of the head and neck as a pressure. Most importantly, exercise doesn’t make it worse and there are no additional symptoms such as nausea.
- Cluster headaches – frequent, short-lived, one-sided headaches across the temple or around the eye and occurring once or more a day. It may also disturb your sleep.
- Chronic daily headaches – these may be of any of the above types, and occur for at least 15 days a month for at least three months.
- Migraine – there are several different types of migraine , but this is usually a moderate to severe one-sided headache that pulsates. The pain is often severe enough to hamper daily activities and may last from four hours to three days if untreated. Significantly, it gets worse with activity and there are additional symptoms, particularly nausea and vomiting, diarrhoea and an increased sensitivity to noise, light or smells. Some people experience an aura (symptoms such as flashing lights) before the headache.
The exact cause of migraines is still not well understood, but the problem is considered to be neurological (related to the nervous system). It is believed that brain chemicals, blood vessels, and nerves of the brain are involved. Therefore, foods, stress, and hormones can be migraine triggers.
Women are three times more likely to have migraines than men. When you have a close relative with migraines, you are much more likely to have migraines, too. It is also more common among people who have epilepsy, depression, asthma, anxiety, stroke, and some other neurologic and hereditary disorders.
Primary headaches won’t kill you, even if they’re able to destroy your quality of life. Most importantly , treatment involves identifying and dealing with any underlying triggers, then using simple pain-relieving techniques and treatments, followed by more powerful drugs if simple remedies are inadequate.
Simple painkillers are effective for most types of headache if used properly. However, there’s a risk that taking medication too often can lead to worse headaches or chronic daily headaches. These are called drug-rebound headaches. The only way to reduce these is to stop taking the painkillers and find the trigger that could be treated well.
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Diet and Headache
Dietary triggers do not necessarily contribute to headaches in all patients, and particular foods may trigger attacks in certain individuals on occasion. Below you will find the list of foods that may trigger migraine headaches.
Ripened cheeses – Cheddar, Emmentaler, Stilton, Brie and Camembert
Herring – pickled or dried
Chocolate
Anything fermented, pickled or marinated
Sour cream – no more than 1/2 cup daily
Nuts, peanut butter
Sourdough bread, breads and crackers
Broad beans, lima beans, fava beans, snow peas
Figs, raisins, papayas, avocados, red plums – no more than 1/2 cup daily
Citrus fruits – no more than 1/2 cup daily
Bananas – no more than 1/2 banana daily
Pizza
Excessive amounts of tea, coffee or cola beverages – no more than 2 cups daily
Sausage, bologna, pepperoni, salami, summer sausage, hot dogs
Chicken livers
Alcoholic beverages