Does depression cause headaches? Here are 5 ways to take care of it

Many people always have symptoms of headaches in their lives, but they are often ignored, always thinking that they are caused by being too tired. In fact, headaches also indicate that there is a problem with the body, and it is also said that depression has symptoms of headaches, so we must take any disease in our body seriously. So does depression cause headaches? What are the care methods?

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