What is the pain in the top of the head?

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The phenomenon of pain in the top of the head is quite common for many people, affecting health, and even pain in the top of the head is one of the causes of death for patients.

1. What causes pain in the top of the head?

Headache is a common symptom of many different diseases. Everyone has had a headache at some point in their life. There are many cases of persistent headaches with no known cause to treat, causing stress and fatigue for the patient. Causes of headaches also have many causes such as weakness, weather changes, colds, sinusitis, high blood pressure, insomnia,... The pain at the top of the head may only appear. In a few minutes it will go away on its own. However, in many cases, the pain is severe and lasts for a few days or is dull, affecting the patient's quality of life, and easily causing dangerous complications. Some causes of pain in the top of the head include:

Trắc nghiệm: Bận rộn có ảnh hưởng đến sức khỏe của bạn không?

Cuộc sống hiện đại khiến chúng ta vì quá bận rộn mà quên chăm sóc sức khỏe cho chính mình. Ai cũng biết rằng lịch trình làm việc cả ngày có thể khiến bạn kiệt sức, nhưng cụ thể bận rộn ảnh hưởng thế nào tới sức khỏe? Hãy cùng làm thử bài trắc nghiệm dưới đây.

Due to the change of weather and seasons, when it's rainy and sunny, hot and cold, etc., it often causes headaches in the forehead area, the top of the head, pain in the 2 eyebrow arches, two eye sockets, people feel tired. There are cases leading to fever, and accompanied by symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, ... the disease often recurs many times a year. Psychological stress or nervous tension is one of the main causes of headache phenomena, be it pain on one side of the head or pain at the top of the head. The disease is common in middle-aged people, often people with depression, or anxiety. Headaches on both sides of the head, starting in the lower occipital or temporal region and then spreading to the whole head. The pain is frequent and there is no feeling of the pulse, the patient feels like the head is being cut off from the temples or occipital region, the neck area and then starts slowly, can last for many days or even many weeks. According to research, most people who work in stressful environments have at least one headache at least once. High blood pressure is common in people over 50 years old, also one of the common causes. Variables that cause a headache, when the pressure of the blood increases, the strong impact on the vessel walls increases the risk of atherosclerosis or dilation of blood vessels, causing headache symptoms. Migraine headache syndrome (or vasomotor headache) has symptoms of pain on the top of the head or on the side of the head, even a throbbing headache like a pulsating pulse, intermittent pain, the headache is often accompanied by a number of symptoms. such as vomiting or nausea, fear of sound, fear of light,.... Lack of blood to the brain has pain in the top of the head and dizziness. Pain at the top of the head accompanied by phenomena such as dizziness, lightheadedness, loss of balance when changing positions, is most likely due to lack of blood to the brain. Patients with cerebral ischemia also have a headache, but the pain is not as intense as a tension headache, but it will be dull and heavy, feeling like something is inserted in the head Sinusitis: The patient feels pain or pressure in the forehead or cheeks, nose and between the eyes, accompanied by fever, nasal congestion, even decreased olfactory function.

2. Solution for top headache treatment

Pain at the top of the head or any other sign of a headache is also a sign of a bad health condition in the body, so do not be subjective. With the exception of a few common headaches caused by changes in the weather, in all other cases, caution is required.
Patients with signs of pain at the top of the head should immediately go to medical facilities to be examined by a doctor to accurately diagnose the cause of symptoms and prescribe appropriate treatment. Patients absolutely must not be subjective, and arbitrarily buy medicine to treat at home.
How to prevent pain in the top of the head include:
Adjust your lifestyle: Balance work and rest time, create a comfortable mind for yourself, don't let stress, and stress lengthen. Adjust a reasonable diet and build a suitable exercise plan to get a healthy body, and help increase the body's resistance. Strengthen daily physical exercise and sports regularly with moderate exercises and gradually increase the intensity, do not over-exercise, exercise regularly for 30-40 minutes a day. Choose a healthy, scientific diet, limit foods that are harmful to health such as alcoholic beverages such as alcohol, coffee, ... and stimulants such as tobacco, pipe tobacco. . Regular health check-ups When you see signs of pain at the top of your head, you should immediately go to medical facilities for timely diagnosis and treatment.
At Vinmec, there is a department of neuroendocrinology in the clinical medicine division, with specialized functions in the examination and treatment of diseases related to the central nervous system including: skull, brain, cerebrovascular , meninges, intracranial nerves, pituitary gland, spine, intervertebral discs, spinal membranes, and peripheral nervous system (nerves and ganglia outside the brain and spinal cord). Along with a team of leading specialist doctors in the country, not only good in expertise but also rich in many years of experience and modern equipment and advanced facilities.

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