What should I do if my head hurts when I cough?

The causes of headache on coughing are related to respiratory diseases and cerebrovascular diseases, etc. Symptomatic treatment, allopathic treatment and life modification can be given to alleviate them.
1. Symptomatic treatment: for the case of headache after coughing, you can rest more, take the way of head massage to relieve, no diagnosis shall not blindly use drugs, not to mention the use of pain medication, may cover up the condition.
2. Treatment of the cause: If the patient’s headache is caused by coughing, we should deal with the cough, consider and rhinitis, bronchitis, pneumonia and other diseases, if it is related to bacterial infection, you can choose cephalosporin, amoxicillin and other drugs to treat.
If and cerebrovascular disease, such as cerebral blood supply, cerebral arteriosclerosis, cerebral infarction factors related to, can follow the doctor’s instructions to give anti-platelet aggregation of drug treatment, such as aspirin, and actively control blood sugar, blood fat, blood pressure levels.
3. Life management: patients should pay more attention to keep warm and avoid catching cold. To have a good sleep habits, maintain adequate sleep, can not stay up late, light diet, do not eat spicy and stimulating food, to avoid smoking and drinking, but also to reduce the consumption of sugary and salt-containing foods.
If the patient has a cough headache symptoms, after the above treatment effect is not good, you can go to the hospital, with the doctor to clarify the specific causes before processing and treatment.