Headache

Frontal Headache – Causes Pain in Front of Head (Above Eyes)

A headache may affect every person at some point in their life but 1 in 5 adolescents and adults suffer with regular headaches. In the United States this accounts for as much as 4% of emergency room visits and is one of the top ten reasons for doctor visits. Headaches tend to be more common among females, affecting about 3 >> Read More ...

Headaches After An Accident – Causes and Symptoms

Headaches are one of the most common complaints among adults and the cause is not always clearly identifiable. When headaches arise after an accident, be it an injury sustained during a car crash or from a fall, it has to be assessed more closely. Sometimes a person who always suffered with headaches finds that it worsens >> Read More ...

8 Tips To Remedy Headaches Without Painkillers

Headaches are are quite common among adults. Although it is not often thought of as a serious ailment, some of the causes of headaches can be life threatening medical conditions. However, even less serious cases that may not be fatal can be severe enough to require emergency medical care. The pain may be unbearable and >> Read More ...

Body Aches and Pains That May Be Serious Symptoms

Pain is the body’s warning signal that tissue is under threat or damaged. In most cases we know what will cause pain. Stubbing your toe. Cutting your finger. Strains and sprains. A blow. Inflammation without injury. However, there are instances where the cause of pain is not clearly identifiable. It may pass on its >> Read More ...

Lesser Known Reasons For Headaches

Suffering with a bursting headache? Painkillers not helping? You should not ignore it because a headache can be a symptom of some serious medical problem. But in most cases it is not a cause for concern and the headache will pass with time even if sleep and medication is not helping. Although headaches are so common, many >> Read More ...

Headache Location of Pain (Top, Back, Sides, Front of Head)

How to identify a headache The term headache refers to a number of different presentations of discomfort or pain in the head. Headaches may be unilateral (one sided) or bilateral (both sides). The duration and onset may be intermittent, episodic or constant. There are acute types of headaches which come on suddenly and >> Read More ...

Headaches and Dizziness (Light Headed, Vertigo) Causes

A headache may often be accompanied by other symptoms and dizziness is one of the more common complaints that is reported along with the head pain. It is important to identify if the dizziness is a symptom of the condition causing the headache or whether the dizziness is the result of a headache. Pain triggers a number of >> Read More ...

Dehydration and Headache – Symptoms and Prevention

Can Dehydration Cause Headache? Dehydration can cause both sudden or chronic headaches. Causes of a sudden dehydration headache: Occasional pressure-like headache due to not drinking enough water, especially after physical exertion and in a hot weather Migraine, a pulsating, one- or both-sided headache with nausea and >> Read More ...

Migraine Headache Triggers: Foods, Estrogen, Stress, Weather…

Migraine and Migraine Triggers Migraine is a throbbing headache (one- or both-sided) with nausea and sensitivity to lights and sounds, lasting from 4 to 72 hours. Migraine is considered as an inherited sensitivity of the nervous system resulting in dilation (expanding) of the arteries on the brain surface when triggered by >> Read More ...
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