How to prevent vascular headaches, three tips to teach you

Vascular headaches are short-lived and painful, which is difficult for most people to bear. Vascular headaches generally occur in middle-aged and elderly people. Therefore, it is important for young people to prevent them early. Only by strengthening the basic physical fitness can they resist the troubles of some middle-aged and elderly diseases. So, how to prevent vascular headaches? Let’s take a look at the explanation below.

1. It is advisable to do neck extension exercises regularly

The complete set of neck extension exercises is: turn your head to the right, as if you are looking back from the right side, place your right index finger on your left cheek and your thumb on your chin, and gently push your head to the right; at the same time, reach your left hand over the top of your head, touch the top of your right ear with your middle finger, and then gently pull your head down towards your chest (if this action will hurt your tendons, or you feel dizzy, you should stop pulling).

2. It is advisable to use "laughter therapy"

A headache does not necessarily mean that there is something wrong with the brain. Only blood vessels, meninges and a few nerves (trigeminal, glossopharyngeal and vagus nerves, 1st-3rd cervical nerves) in the skull can feel pain, while most of the pain-sensitive areas of the head are outside the skull, that is, the scalp. Tissues such as muscles and blood vessels. More than 90% of headache patients suffer from a "tension headache". When people encounter unpleasant things, they frown, and the muscles in their forehead, head, and neck are tense and in a state of contraction. Over time, this will cause a tension headache.

3. Reduce salt intake

Salt can cause hormonal reactions in the body, leading to periodic migraine headaches or vascular headaches (sudden constriction or excessive dilation of blood vessels). Therefore, if you eat a low-salt diet when you have a headache, you can increase the blood camp's resistance to several causes of periodic migraines. On the contrary, if you eat a high-salt diet, it will aggravate the condition and even cause unbearable pain. Therefore, eating a low-salt diet can relieve headaches.