4 Types of Headache - Symptoms, Risk Factors and Causes

What is Chronic Headaches? Chronic headache is a headache which is more than usual. The pain that never stops of consequences caused by the chronic headaches often make sufferers can not stand.

Chronic headache is a variation of the daily headaches. Defined daily headaches that certainly happened 15 days or more than a month, at least three months. And is a major preoccupation of chronic daily headache, that the disease does not produce other conditions. So you need not worry, chronic headaches is not an indication of a more severe illness or more dangerous, but only a daily cycle.

Now, let us identify some of the causes and symptoms of chronic headaches through the following explanation:


Symptoms of Chronic Headaches

Chronic daily headaches are classified by how long they felt the last time - more than four hours or less than four hours. The duration of headaches last you feel can show what type of headache you are experiencing.

• Chronic migraine.
• Chronic headaches due to blood pressure.
• New daily persistent headache.
• Hemicrania continua.

1. Chronic Migraine

Headache is evolving from migraine that comes suddenly. To be diagnosed, you must have headaches - migraine, headaches due to blood pressure or both - 15 days or more in a month, for three months. In addition, in eight days or more for the last three months, you must have experienced the following symptoms.

Headache must have at least two of the following characteristics:

• Attacking only on one side of the head
• Cause throbbing pain
• Causing pain from moderate to severe
• Being annoyed at regular physical activity

And the symptoms that led to at least one of the following:

• Nausea, vomiting or both
• Sensitive to light and sound

Otherwise, if your headaches respond to treatment take triptans or ergot anticipation of these symptoms - in eight days or more in a month or more in a month in the last three months - it is also a chronic migraine.


2. Chronic headaches due to tension (tension headaches)

These headaches evolved from headaches due to tension that comes suddenly. These headaches may occur in the final hours or continuously.

Chronic headaches due to tension has at least two of the following characteristics:

• Pain on both sides of the head
• Causing mild to moderate pain
• Cause pain that feels pressed or tightened but not pulsed
• Not made to feel annoyed at regular physical activity

In addition, it all led to at least one of the following:

• Sensitive to noise or light
• Mild nausea

3. New daily persistent headache

This became a constant headache in a few days from the first time you have a headache.
New daily persistent headache at least two of the following characteristics:

• Pain on the two sides of the head
• Cause pain that feels like pressure or tightening, but not pulsed
• Not made to feel annoyed at regular physical activity

In addition, it all led to at least one of the following:

• Sensitive to noise or light
• Mild nausea

 4. Hemicrania continua

Hemicrania continua these headaches cause pain on one side of the head that does not move side. They also:

• Daily and continues with the period without a sense of freedom from pain
• Causing moderate pain but stung when severe
• Responding to prescription pain reliever indomethacin (Indocin)
• Might sometimes be severe with a flourish with symptoms such as migraine

In addition, hemicrania continua headache causes most arrived one of the following:

• Exit tears or red eye as a side effect
• Nasal breath or runny nose
• Drooping eyelids or pupillary constriction

Causes of Chronic Headaches

The cause of most of the chronic daily headache is not so understandable. The primacy of chronic daily headache can not be identified on a case. Chronic daily headache occurs if:

• You have a heightened response to signs of pain
• The part of your brain that suppress the pain does not work properly

The frequency of other headaches may be caused by a disease or condition that is different, including:

• Swelling or other problems in the blood vessels and the range of the brain, including stroke.
• Infection, eg meningitis
• Intracranial pressure either too high or too low
• Brain tumor
• Traumatic brain injury

Many people who have actually experienced headache frequency effects of too often take the medical treatment of pain. If you take the medical treatment of pain - even without a prescription analgesics - more than three days a week, you are at risk of experiencing an increase in headaches.


Exposure Risk Factors of Chronic Headaches

Some factors that may increase the frequency of headaches are:

• Restless.
• Depression.
• Sleep disorders.
• Obesity.
• Snoring.
• The excessive use of caffeine.
• The excessive use of painkillers.
• Regularly wear something that makes the tension in the head or in the neck.

Method for the prevention of chronic headaches can be done with a healthy lifestyle as diligent exercise, adequate sleep, regular meals, relax, reduce stress and reduce the consumption of caffeine. Reducing the use of medical drugs and avoid headache triggers is a great way to avoid chronic headaches.