What if my head hurts after smoking a hookah?

1 History of entertainment

Hookah is a special device, in the bowl of which a special tobacco mixture is added and cooled by filtration of water.

The birthplace of this amazing kind of entertainment is India. It was there that the culture of smoking hookah originated, which gradually moved to the Middle East.

In Russia and the CIS countries, this curiosity appeared in the late 90's, when our compatriots were able to freely visit the countries of the Middle East.

The hookah has become very popular due to the fact that the soul of a Russian person likes to try everything new and interesting. Thus, hookah has become one of the most popular ways of spending time in a friendly company.

However, it should be noted that smoking hookah refers to bad habits and can cause significant harm to health.

This is due to the fact that it includes nicotine and nicotine gums. Therefore, in a very short time you can get addiction and acquire another bad habit that causes harm to health.

Headache after hookah, what is the cause and main symptoms of the disease?

2 Symptoms and causes of poisoning

The most common symptoms of shark poisoning are the following:

1. Light aching pain in the temporal or occipital part of the head, while the person is dizzy.
2. Feeling of nausea, vomiting, a sharp decline in strength.
3. It's impossible to carry loud sounds and speech, I want peace and quiet.
4. Breathing is becoming more frequent, and there is the impression of lack of air.

If you find yourself having one or more of these symptoms, then there is a high probability that you are poisoned with a hookah.

The reasons why the headache hurts from the hookah, there is a bad state of health and a sharp change of mood, can be the following:

1. Smoking is done on an empty stomach. If you smoke on an empty stomach, nicotine is quickly absorbed into the blood and immediately enters the brain through the blood system, which can cause a sharp headache, dizziness, nausea and vomiting. Therefore, before moving to nicotine "pleasure", make sure that your stomach is full and the dose of nicotine will not be quickly absorbed into the blood.
2. Smoking hookah is able to dehydrate the body. If you have not drunk enough water recently, there may be a rapid nicotine poisoning, the consequences of which can become a syncope. Therefore, without fail before drinking hookah you need to drink a glass of water.
3. If you do not smoke cigarettes and the body is not used to taking a dose of nicotine, smoking a hookah can cause a sharp attack of headache and dizziness.
4. The hookah smoke that you inhale is also very dangerous, as it contains a lot of tar, which can cause a sudden deterioration in well-being.
5. Very frequent inhalation of hookah smoke from the tube can have deplorable consequences. In the beginning, salivation will increase, and then vomiting may occur. If you smoke a hookah company, you need to start it in a circle and smoke only when the hookah pipe comes to you.

3 How to prevent dizziness

In order for the hookah smoking process to bring you a certain buzz about which you so dreamed, you must follow certain rules.

Before you smoke( and also in the process of smoking) drink more pure natural water. Alcohol or low-alcohol sweet drinks can further dehydrate the body and worsen health. Avoid and use carbonated mineral water. The fact is that carbon dioxide, which is contained in this water, is able to deliver nicotine directly to the brain, thereby leading to instant dizziness and nausea.

You need to smoke calmly. Therefore, relax as much as possible and take a comfortable pose. Slowly inhale the hookah smoke and also exhale slowly. Be sure to take a break between puffs and do not rush to smoke quickly.

Properly refill the hookah. If you smoke in a cafe, then professionals will do it for you as correctly as possible. If you prefer a home hookah, make sure that the tobacco is laid in the hookah cup correctly. It should not burn or smolder. The amount of water in the flask should not be too large to avoid that it does not go through the tube and not hit the lungs.

While chewing hookah in the east, it is customary to chew something. Therefore, you can safely combine a meal and smoking a hookah. This will not allow nicotine too quickly absorbed into the blood and cause you discomfort.

Currently, there are many different types of hookah. Especially dangerous are hookahs on alcohol( wine, cognac).They can lead not only to nicotine, but also to alcohol poisoning in pairs of hookah smoke. Try a hookah on milk or water. To taste it is not worse than alcoholic, but the damage to the body brings much less.

4 Medical measures

What you need to do in order not to ask why after the shisha your head hurts.

Coffee. A small cup of coffee can expand the vessels of the brain. Dizziness and headache are often associated with vasospasms. Therefore, after the hookah you can drink coffee, in order to prevent the sudden appearance of headaches and soften the spasm of blood vessels.

Medications. If you did not drink alcohol together with a hookah, then an ambulance for you can be a tablet of Citramon or Spasmalgon. It is able to quickly locate the pain and remove spasms, causing a sharp headache. However, medication can not be taken when you have consumed alcohol. The fact is that alcohol is completely incompatible with drugs, it can cause absolutely the opposite effect. The best option for first aid can be a glass of clean drinking water and fresh air.

Fresh air. When poisoning hookah suffering nervous, circulatory and respiratory systems. First you need to restore the respiratory system. Once the body is enriched with pure oxygen, all the processes in it will begin to occur much more quickly.

Help the body to recover quickly, being in the open air, to do this, put as much air into the lungs as possible, then hold your breath for a few seconds and gradually let out the air from the lungs until it stops. If you are at home, it is better to ventilate the room, and most to leave for fresh air.

Eat. In the process of smoking hookah can eat food. Perfectly suitable fruit that will only add flavor and taste when smoking. In addition, if you eat, the likelihood of poisoning with nicotine is minimized.

In the event that the head after hookah is ill and no methods described above are effective, it is necessary to immediately quit smoking. The cause of headache and dizziness may be a consequence of a serious illness that can lead to hypertension. Be sure to check your blood pressure. Often it happens that smoking hookah can only provoke the diseases that you already have. Do not delay the visit to a cardiologist and try not to harm your health intentionally.