What's causing the pain on both sides of my head?

There are many kinds of headaches. Some people feel more severe pain on one side of the head, while others feel pain on both sides. Headaches are generally common at present and can be divided into two categories: exogenous and internal. They are usually traumatic headaches, fever headaches, toxic or drug-induced headaches. They are mainly divided into pathological or physical factors. Therefore, everyone needs to pay attention to reasonable control in daily life to avoid worsening of headaches.

The causes of headaches can be divided into two categories: external and internal. Exogenous headaches are mostly caused by external evils such as wind, cold, dampness, and heat, with wind being the main evil; internal injury headaches are related to the liver, spleen, and kidneys. In addition, trauma, falls, long-term illness affecting the meridians, qi stagnation, blood stasis, and obstruction of the blood vessels can also lead to headaches.

Traumatic headache

Including local head trauma, concussion, cerebral contusion, and intracranial hematoma. If the cause is trauma, the symptoms, signs and treatment results will vary significantly depending on the severity and location of the injury.

Heat headache

It refers to fever accompanied by headache symptoms due to other diseases, including colds, upper respiratory tract infections, pneumonia, etc., but does not include central high fever caused by intracranial infection, trauma, tumors, etc.

Toxic or drug-induced headache

Including alcohol poisoning, carbon monoxide poisoning, lead, benzene, nitrate poisoning and oral vasodilators such as nitroglycerin.

ENT Diseases Headache

Including eye diseases such as glaucoma, refractive error, sinusitis, otitis media, mastoiditis, dental caries, alveolar abscess, etc.