I. For functional headache or headache caused by extracranial diseases.
1. Correctly understand the disease and build up self-confidence. The majority of headaches encountered in clinical practice are still functional. If organic diseases are excluded after relevant examination, it is better to believe in science, establish the belief of being able to win the disease, actively cooperate with the treatment, and eliminate the bad implication of self.
2, advocate a regular life and work. Get enough sleep, have a reasonable diet structure, and quit bad habits; actively participate in interesting cultural and sports activities.
3.Actively treat the primary disease.
4.The correct role of drugs for prevention.
2.For ordinary tension headache.
The best way is to avoid tense situations and any behavior that may lead to tension. This is easier said than done. Sometimes it is difficult to even identify a stressful situation; even if you recognize it, it is difficult to avoid it, such as having to submit a report to your boss, being assigned to do three hours of continuous typing work, having a disobedient child at home, etc. On certain occasions, it is worth trying to take certain precautions.
Do not maintain the same posture for a long time, for example, avoid sitting at a desk with your back arched for a long time, you should stand up from time to time to stretch your limbs and move your muscles. Talk to someone about something unrelated to your current worries or difficulties and take it easy. Lie down and rest for a few moments or take a warm bath to loosen yourself up. If this self-help therapy does not work, you may want to seek medical attention and consider trying some other non-drug therapies for headache prevention, such as biofeedback, relaxation therapy and other therapies that loosen the muscles and blood vessels in the head.
Third, headache care methods.
Headache is one of the most common clinical symptoms and is a subjective sensation produced by the body in response to various pain-causing factors and belongs to the category of pain. The pain-causing factors can be physical, chemical, biochemical or mechanical, etc. These factors stimulate the headache located outside the skull. These factors stimulate the sensory nerve endings located in the intracranial and extracranial tissue structures and are perceived through the corresponding conduction pathways to the brain.
Points to note in the care of headache.
1. For mild headache, rest is generally not necessary and painkillers, such as painkillers, can be taken. If you have a severe headache, you must rest in bed.
2.The environment should be quiet and the room light should be soft.
3. Pay attention to understanding the PQRST of the patient’s headache so that the corresponding care can be given in a targeted manner. Also, pay attention to observe whether the patient is clear and whether there are symptoms such as facial and orofacial distortion.
4.Acupuncture and massage treatment can be given according to the area of headache, such as Yin Tang, He Gu and Yang Bai points for forehead pain, Bai Hui for pain on both sides, and Feng Chi and Waiguan points for posterior parietal pain.
5.Patients with headache and dizziness, irritability, poor night sleep, red face and bitter mouth should strengthen their mental care and eliminate the patient’s irritability and tension to avoid triggering other diseases. Hypertensive patients should pay attention to rest, keep quiet, and take antihypertensive drugs on time.
6.For headache caused by some diseases with clear causes, the condition should be controlled first to relieve the pain.
IV. Preventive care for headache in summer.
Headache is a common symptom of many diseases, and there are three main types: neurological headache, infectious disease headache, and intracranial and extracranial disease headache. The first two types of headache, which originate from physical weakness or wind evil invasion, have a larger proportion and are mostly related to weather conditions. Clinical practice and modern medical research have shown that summer heat, stifling humidity, thunderstorms, high winds, and sudden changes in weather often trigger or aggravate headaches, and summer diet and sleep, also often lead directly to headaches.
According to the specific effects of climate on headache, the common headache in summer can be divided into three categories.
1. Resistance summer headache. This is a typical seasonal headache, which attacks once summer comes and heals without treatment after autumn. People with a history of resistance to summer generally find it difficult to adapt to the hot summer climate, especially in early summer when the temperature rises suddenly and in the heat of summer when the temperature exceeds 37°C. As a result, people with a history of resistance to summer generally have difficulty in adapting, and their plant nervous function begins to be disturbed, with loss of appetite, lack of sleep, general weakness, and headache often accompanied by low fever. The main cause of resistance summer headache is weakness and lack of qi and blood, so it should be treated as resistance summer. In summer, we should improve the diet, eat more vegetables and fruits, and at the same time, improve indoor cooling and ensure a certain amount of sleep.
2.Cold drink headache. The summer weather is as hot as a steamer, cold watermelon, cold beer, ice cream and other cold drinks have naturally become people’s “pet”. But when cold drinks are imported, it will give strong stimulation to the oral mucosa, which may make the nerves of the palate skin produce radioactive pain. This pain is not obvious to some people, but may cause acute attacks in some patients with a history of headaches (such as migraines). These patients often experience double vision, unbearable headaches, and even ringing in the ears and eyes or mild nausea after eating cold drinks. Therefore, people with a history of headache must eat less or no cold drinks, and if the headache attack is not very serious, you can use your hand to massage the area repeatedly to relieve the pain, and if the headache is particularly severe, you should seek medical attention in time.
3.Low cranial headache. In summer, the temperature is often higher than the body temperature, so the evaporation of sweat is the main way for the body to dissipate heat, when the evaporation of sweat is too much, the body is easily dehydrated; in addition, because of the climate, the food is easy to deteriorate in summer, people eat the deteriorated food, easy to suffer from acute gastroenteritis or bacterial dysentery, thus vomiting and diarrhea, resulting in dehydration. When the body is dehydrated, headache symptoms will occur when the body position changes, especially when standing up. When a headache occurs, one should rest in bed, but without using pillows to keep the head low. To eliminate and reduce dehydration, a certain amount of saline can be input.
Migraine is commonly known as migraine headache. It is called “vascular headache” in Western medicine. It is mainly caused by the constriction and dilatation of intracranial arteries, and is mostly seen in women.
Five, the use of food treatment, there is a significant effect, the following are a few.
1, hot water soak hands: clean hot water a basin, the hands immersed. The amount of water to soak through the wrist is appropriate, and uninterruptedly add some hot water to maintain the water temperature. After half an hour of soaking, the pain can be reduced, or even disappear completely.
2.Onion and ginger mud on the pain: 3 fresh onions, half a glass of ginger skin, 1 cup of wine trough, pound and mix together, and put on the pain.
3, chili tree root decoction: ten chili tree root decoction, wash, water decoction with sugar to serve.
4, white radish juice drops nose: fresh white radish a, mash squeeze juice, drops nose. In the drop solution can also be dissolved in ice chips 1.5 grams before use. Drops should be kept for 20 minutes after the juice does not flow out, 2 times a day.
5, serving silk, bitter gourd vine: silk gourd vine, bitter gourd vine fried withered and grinded, each time with boiling water to serve 10-12 grams.
6, take “Chinese medicine” small formula: chrysanthemum, gypsum, Chuanxiong 10 grams each, grind, each serving 3 grams, clear tea sent down.