What’s wrong with waking up in the middle of the day with a headache?



Waking up at noon with a headache may be related to cold, incorrect sleeping posture, neurasthenia, high blood pressure.

1. Cold: sleep environment is too cold, including low room temperature in winter, summer fan or air conditioning blowing, as well as wash the head without blow-drying to sleep, etc., may cause the head blood vessels, skin contraction, poor circulation of blood to the brain, which stimulates the nerve center caused by headache.

2. Incorrect sleeping posture: due to the pillow is too low or too high, sleep on the stomach and other cases, may cause the cervical vertebrae abnormal curvature, especially cervical spondylosis patients, often compression of the vertebral artery, vertebral canal in the nerves, resulting in vertebral – basilar artery blood supply is insufficient, resulting in headaches.

3. Neurasthenia: related to long-term mental tension, anxiety, depression and other factors, can show physical discomfort, headache is more common, thus causing headache at noon sleep performance.

4. High blood pressure: headache in the middle of the day, may be related to blood pressure fluctuations, should be detected in a calm state of blood pressure, while under the guidance of a doctor using drugs such as enalapril and other control of blood pressure.

If the headache persists without relief, you should consult a doctor.