Headache when coughing

Coughing is a common symptom, and there are many complications caused by coughing, such as headache. Coughing combined with headache has a great impact on patients, especially affecting their daily work and life, so when these symptoms appear, active treatment must be carried out. Of course, if you cannot seek medical treatment in time, you can also use certain methods to relieve your headache and make your body more comfortable.

1. Why do I have a headache when I cough?

The main reasons for headaches caused by colds are the effects of bacterial toxins, fever causing blood vessel dilation in the head, etc. Coughing causes increased brain pressure, blood vessel dilation, and aggravated headaches.

2. How to relieve headaches yourself

1. Rest and drink plenty of water.

2. Ice pack cold compress: Put ice cubes in an ice bag or wrap it in a towel and apply it to the area of ​​headache. Once the blood vessels in the cooled head constrict, the symptoms will naturally ease.

3. Massage the head: Massaging the head with moderate force is an effective way to relieve migraine. The temple is an important acupoint for migraine massage. You can press it with your index finger, or you can use your fist to gently rotate back and forth from the temple to the hairline to massage.

3. Treatment of cough

When treating a cough, the first thing to do is to find out the cause. On the basis of treating the primary disease, choose appropriate cough and expectorant drugs and pay attention to care. When the respiratory mucosa is stimulated by foreign objects, inflammation, secretions or allergic factors, coughing is caused reflexively, which helps to eliminate foreign objects or secretions that invade the respiratory tract from the outside and eliminate respiratory irritation factors. For stubborn coughs, central cough suppressants can be used to achieve the purpose of relieving cough. When the amount of sputum is large, cough suppressants cannot be used alone and should be used in combination with expectorants.

3. Prevention of cough

Most coughs are caused by respiratory diseases, so preventing respiratory diseases is the key to preventing coughs.

1. Strengthen exercise and engage in more outdoor activities to improve the body's disease resistance.

2. When the climate changes, add or remove clothes in time to prevent overcooling or overheating.

3. Avoid taking children to crowded public places and avoid contact with coughing patients to reduce the chance of infection.

4. Open windows frequently to let in fresh air.

5. Receive preventive injections in time to reduce the occurrence of infectious diseases.

6. Take Chinese medicine for prevention during cold epidemics. Use Guanzhong, Fangfeng and Jingjie, one dose per day, for 2 to 3 days. Children who often catch colds can drink decoction of astragalus and red dates instead of tea every day. Long-term use can increase the body's immunity and reduce the occurrence of colds.

7. Preventing cough and cold is very important. Children should pay attention to physical exercise, improve their ability to resist "evil", avoid external infection, so as to prevent the condition from worsening.

8. Strengthen children's lifestyle adjustments, ensure proper diet, and ensure sleep.

9. Eating pears and radishes appropriately can prevent coughs to a certain extent.

10. Middle-aged and elderly people with long-term cough should go to the hospital for examination as soon as possible to identify the cause and receive timely treatment.