What to do when you have a headache due to mental stress?

Headaches caused by mental tension are closely related to the daily living environment. If they are not treated for a long time, they are likely to develop into anxiety disorders. There are many ways to treat mental stress headaches. The most common ones include paying more attention to rest, taking good care of diet and psychology, and effectively controlling blood pressure.

1. Rest: Family members should guide patients to arrange a reasonable daily routine and pay attention to the combination of work and rest. Ensure adequate rest and sleep time. Patients can arrange their work and rest schedules reasonably according to their own life patterns, and try not to disrupt their work and rest schedules as much as possible. The time to get up should not be earlier than 6:30. A short nap at noon is very beneficial. It is not advisable to eat too much, smoke, drink strong tea or do excessive exercise before resting at night. Take a hot bath or soak your feet in hot water, turn off the lights, and create a quiet rest environment to reduce the excitability of the cerebral cortex and make it fall asleep as soon as possible.

2. Dietary care: Migraine patients should pay attention to the rationality of their diet, avoid the use of allergenic drugs and certain spicy and irritating foods, fried foods, and foods with high tyramine content that can easily induce migraines, such as chocolate, cheese, citrus, and alcoholic foods, and eat more cereals and legumes rich in vitamin B1, as well as fresh fruits and vegetables. Quit smoking and drinking.

3. Psychological care: Although migraine manifests itself as a physical disease, its onset and evolution are closely related to psychological factors. Therefore, migraine patients must be good at regulating their emotions, try to maintain a stable and optimistic mental state, remain calm and learn to treat things objectively and rationally, and not be too happy, too sad, too angry, or too worried. If there are problems that they cannot "digest" or "solve", they must also learn to control their emotions and regulate themselves. For example, climbing mountains, running, playing ball, etc., can divert your attention and relax your tense nerves to reduce or eliminate the stimulation of negative emotions on the brain nerves and prevent the induction of migraines. Family members should create a warm family environment for patients, so that patients can stay in a good mood, correctly accept and understand the disease, give more psychological comfort, and avoid negative emotional stimulation.

4. Effectively control high blood pressure.

5. Acupuncture has a good effect on migraine: the acupoints generally used are Fengchi, Touwei, Taiyang and Hegu, etc. You can ask a Chinese medicine doctor to perform acupuncture treatment.