What's wrong with the headache

Nowadays, people are under great social pressure, especially those who have been working in the workplace for a long time. Under great pressure, they are prone to forehead pain, headaches and lack of energy. These conditions are very bad for the body. If you do not actively seek treatment, you will not only be unable to get rid of the trouble caused by the pain, but also affect your work efficiency. So let us understand what is the cause of forehead pain?

First, what causes headache? Vascular headaches: such as migraine and cluster headaches, are a type of paroxysmal intracranial vasoconstriction and reduced local blood flow, which causes visual symptoms, followed by dilation of extracranial arteries and headaches.

Second, tension headache: also known as muscle contraction headache or neuralgia, it is the most common functional headache. It is more common in young women. The attacks are intermittent and are often caused by tension, anxiety, fatigue, incorrect writing or reading posture, etc., which lead to continuous contraction of the head, face or neck muscles and cause headaches.

Third, benign functional headaches: such as primary pulsating headache; cold stimulation headache; benign cough headache; benign fatigue headache; external compression headache; sexual activity headache, etc.

Fourth, central headache: 1. Space-occupying headache - caused by brain tumors and brain cysts. The headache progressively worsens and is severe and dull pain, which may be accompanied by symptoms of increased intracranial pressure such as dizziness, nausea and vomiting. 2. Infectious headache - caused by various encephalitis, meningitis, arachnoiditis, etc., such as tuberculous meningitis and encephalitis, often with infection symptoms such as fever. 3. Cerebrovascular headache: seen in cerebral hemorrhage, infarction, brain trauma, cerebral vascular malformation, rheumatic cerebrovasculitis, etc.

Fifth, cranial neuralgia: 1. Trigeminal neuralgia - more common in women over 40 years old, paroxysmal, electric shock-like pain, lasting tens of seconds to several minutes, accompanied by facial muscle twitching. 2. Occipital neuralgia: electric shock-like pain or tingling in the Fengchi area behind the occipital bone. Recommended reading: Types of headache symptoms

What causes headache in the forehead? ENT headache: 1. Ear-related headache - otitis media, mastoiditis; 2. Odontogenic headache - toothache; Rhinogenic headache - sinusitis, nasopharyngeal carcinoma; 3. Ocular headache - refractive error, glaucoma. Symptomatic headache: such as fever, infection, high blood pressure, etc. Cervical headache: caused by cervical spondylosis.