Nowadays, headache has become a common condition of people. Most of the time our normal days implies loud sounds, lots of images passing in front of our eyes and the omnipresent stress. Unless we find a daily moment when our ears and eyes are closed and our mind is free to think of nothing, we tend to have headaches. Basically, there are several types of headaches, from the minor hangover to the more serious thunderclap headache that can imply severe bleeding around the brain.
Migraines are the most common type, accompanied by nausea and vomiting and an alteration of the sensors, called “aura”. 70 to 80 percent of migraines are genetic, as patients usually have a family history of the illness. Even more frequent than migraines are the tension-type headaches. They usually give the impression of having your head squeezed in a vise. 90 percent of people experience this type of headache.
Our current society is hyperactive. Everybody is very busy and even children are sometimes overbooked. When the ears and the eye get tired of being over solicitated, headache is the body’s way of saying Stop. According to Merle Diamond physician at the Diamond Headache Clinic in Chicago, video games, television and computer are very harmful for the eyes especially for young people who tend to spend more than 8 hours a day in front of a screen. Loud noises or loud music can also be very fatiguing for the brain and trigger the same reaction – headache.
But maybe the biggest factor is stress. Along with anxiety, they cause headaches rapidly and also determine behaviors that leads to aching head like meal-skipping and bad sleeping. Gretchen Tietjen neurologist at the University of Toledo College of Medicine says that when people have had a lot of stress early in life, it basically changes the brain. And it changes it in ways that probably aren’t reversible and, in some cases, become more pronounced as the person ages. A link between very high levels of stress and headaches has been established by specialists.
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