Headaches are common, but when should you see a doctor?

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The article is professionally consulted by Master, Doctor Huynh An Thien - Department of Medical Examination and Internal Medicine, Vinmec Danang International General Hospital.

Headaches are caused by disturbances in pain-sensitive structures in the head region. This is a common disease in many ages, but we often have a subjective mentality that does not go to the doctor and treat it in time, leading to many dangerous complications.

1. Common types of headaches

1.1 Migraine For patients who often suffer from left-sided migraine, it is often commented by experts: typically female patients, with a family history of such a condition. Often, the patient's pain will be significantly related to the weather, reaction to strange odors or after using foods or medicines with allergens.
The warning signs of migraine for the patient will usually be visual - scoliosis with symptoms of flashing, sometimes it can be transient blurred vision, stuffy nose or nausea followed by migraine attacks start for about 20-30 minutes. Many patients will experience problems associated with migraine such as vomiting or relief from vomiting.
And one of the most common ways to relieve pain for patients is to lie down. If the pain is recorded in the EEG, it will be possible to see the signs of diffuse visual wave disturbance. But at the same time there was no sign of damage to the bottom of the eye.
If you feel that the patient has the following additional symptoms, take a scan instead of taking the usual treatment and prevention:
Headaches are more frequent. The pain is getting worse and worse, out of control. Other neurological signs appear, persist, and persist. 1.2. Pain in the back of the neck

This is a sign of high blood pressure. Patients will feel extremely painful, accompanied by nausea, classic neurological disorders, this is a typical manifestation of increased intracranial pressure, brain tumor. Patients with pain when changing weather, pain mainly in the forehead area near the eyes, pain will increase when inhaling or snorting, along with problems such as nasopharyngeal secretions, it is often thought of as pathology. sinuses.
In addition, there are other symptoms that are quite intense for both the maxillofacial and eye sockets (the pain of the V nerve). Tumor V is a rare disease that causes pain in all areas of this cord, including the eyes.
If the patient feels the following signs appear in the body, immediately go to the nearest medical facility for examination:
Feeling terrible headache, pain when chewing. Optic edema. Many behavioral and psychological changes. Reduced eyesight. The feeling of headache has never appeared before: headache, nausea, headache, dizziness. Pain symptoms increase in frequency and intensity. Pain along with many other signs of neuropathic pain. 1.3. Headaches related to diseases of the eyes and blood vessels There are many causes of eye disease causing patients to have headaches and eye pain. In which the most classic is acute glaucoma, angle closure. The most dangerous causes are carotid artery stenosis, cerebellar artery stenosis, carotid-cavernous shunt.
Headache due to vascular causes: carotid artery stenosis, cerebral vascular malformation, aortic dissection, carotid-cavernous sinus shunt, .., are all serious vascular diseases accompanied by full pain , pain around the eye position, neovascular glaucoma. Patients who want to be treated for this disease should visit a cardiovascular center.

2. Headache when should go to the doctor?

If you encounter one of the problems below, go to medical facilities or hospitals for health advice:
Pains that occur suddenly after the patient's exertion, stress, anger , need to think about: meningeal hemorrhage, brain hemorrhage. Or it is the pain that appears for the first time, intense intensity or the pain accompanied by weakness of the half of the body, numbness of the half of the body. As the pain increases, think about: brain tumor, chronic dural hematoma. In addition, it is necessary to be wary of pain associated with fever often caused by encephalitis, meningitis,... Department of Medical Examination & Internal Medicine - Vinmec Danang International Hospital with a team of experienced doctors in the field of medicine. specialized areas such as: Neurology - Stroke, Cardiology, Endocrinology, Digestive, Respiratory... Migraine patients at Vinmec Da Nang will be examined by a team of qualified doctors. Neurology includes: Master, Doctor Le Duong Tien, Master, Doctor Bui Ngoc Phuong Hoai, Doctor CKII Le Nghiem Bao, Master, Doctor Huynh An Thien ...

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