Headache indicates acute vertebral-basilar artery occlusion, cerebral arteritis, tuberculous meningitis and other diseases. It is recommended to improve the relevant examinations in time to clarify the specific causes.
1. Acute vertebrobasilar artery occlusion: this disease is caused by blood clots blocking the vertebrobasilar artery. Patients may have dizziness, headache, difficulty in swallowing and other precursor symptoms. Acute vertebrobasilar occlusion is a serious life-threatening cerebrovascular event that can present with symptoms such as dizziness, vomiting, quadriplegia, ataxia, and coma.
2. Cerebral arteritis: often caused by bacterial infection, viral infection, autoimmune disease and other factors. Numbness, headache, fever and other precursor symptoms may appear before the onset of the disease. At the onset of the disease, it can be manifested as limb paralysis, numbness, aphasia, slow reaction, etc.
3. Tuberculous meningitis: Tuberculous meningitis is a non-suppurative inflammatory disease of the meninges and spinal membranes caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The prodromal stage is characterized by low-grade fever, night sweats, depression, loss of appetite, headache, nausea, vomiting, moodiness, agitation, constipation and weight loss.
Headache may also indicate other diseases. It is recommended that patients go to the local regular hospitals in a timely manner, through the head CT or MRI, etc. to clarify the cause of the disease, according to the results of the examination to do targeted treatment.