Code of cephalgia for ICD-10 and signs of disease

1 What causes the symptom

The usual reaction of most people: the headache was painful, and the pain went away, everything was forgotten. But no, the problem has remained, because, as thousands of examples have shown, cephalgia basically arises as a consequence of some disease, quite often completely unrelated to the head.

Headache occurs in the background:

• hypertension, intracranial pressure;
• cardiovascular problems;
• of neuralgia and osteochondrosis;
• heavy load, especially on the eyesight;
• of the nervous surge;
• lack of treatment and systematic lack of sleep;
• injury and inflammation of the head;
• inflammation of the internal organs and diabetes.

But this is far from a complete list of diseases that provoke a headache.

2 Clinical picture of the disease

Headache can not be confused with any other. Basically, even regardless of the reasons, it has an increasing tendency, nausea and vomiting begin, there is a perspiration on the forehead. The person hardly perceives bright light and sounds, becomes irritable.

Cephalgia has a variety of ways that can identify a disease that at first glance is not associated with a headache.

1. Kind of pain - vascular cephalgia. Its cause is the narrowing or widening of the blood vessels, which have experienced unexpected irritation and reacted by giving pain signals. An unexpected load falls on the vessels of the brain, which is not designed to receive a large amount of blood, so patients describe their perception as a pain of a pulsating nature. So vegetative vascular dystonia makes itself felt, but hypertension or hypotension have similar symptoms. When the volume of blood is large, and the tension of the muscle tissues located in the canal walls is low, the velocity of the venous blood in the cranial wall slows down, its volume decreases. Here comes the pain. Sometimes this kind of pain can be provoked by external causes, if a person holds his head too long in the lowered state, too tightly wraps his throat with narrow clothing.
2. Venous cephalgia is caused by a weak tension in the walls of the venous canals, the blood volume increases as a result, and the pressure and intracranial veins are forced to stretch, and the person experiences pain in the occiput. There is one more reason: if a hemorrhagic failure occurs and the blood becomes too thick, the coagulant activity of the plasma increases due to the loss of the elasticity of the red blood cells. Oxygen does not come in the usual quantities, the toxins remain, and the dull pain persists, then it becomes unbearable, then it ceases, but the heaviness remains. There is a ringing and noise in the ears, movements slow down.
3. Zephalgy vasomotor. The head, as during the sophisticated torture, is tightly clamped in the vice. Pain does not pass, it causes nausea. Typically, the culprits are small mobility, nervous shocks, excess medical products, a heavy load on the neck and shoulders, stay in a stuffy, often smoked room.
4. When there is a spasm of muscle tissue, the blood flow or completely can be stopped, or partly, which means that the toxins are not washed out of the body, starting their poisoning effect, which is one of the causes of the pain that can eventually grow without treatmentchronic. The cephalgia of the tension is most often felt in the occipital part, spreading all over the head. Patients complain of a feeling of a red-hot hoop that can not be removed.
5. The autonomic nervous system may suffer from various causes. Stagnation and disturbance of blood flow, trauma, inflammation, stress, alcohol - any push can disrupt the work of many body systems, and thus induced vegetovascular dystonia can cause a special dull, squeezing pain. And if the pressure is increased, heart often starts to hurt, respiratory functions are disrupted.
6. Angioedystic cephalgia. Headaches also occur when the arterial pressure rises, and the vessels of the brain begin to narrow, the veins become deformed due to improper blood flow. This is a dangerous condition, as it often leads to a heart attack, a hemorrhage to the brain. Pain with this form of cephalalgia is pulsating, localized in the occipital part, but can spread to the entire head. Especially dangerous are seizures after active physical exertion.

Persistent pain can turn into chronic cephalalgia, and the causes of this pathology may be the most unexpected.

Basically, this is a violation of the hormonal balance, too busy schedule, nervous breakdowns, remedies.

3 What to do with the pathology of

When the headache does not go away even after taking analgesics, it intensifies, doctors determine that it is persistent cephalalgia. With this form, it is necessary to study the whole organism, modern devices come to the aid, and, having identified the cause, it will be possible to treat the patient.

Headaches can occur when the temperature changes caused by climatic conditions, but can be a hereditary factor.

Dangerous for life if the headache is associated with meningitis, when there is swelling in the meninges.

Headaches can have many causes, and it's time to react to the fact that there is a cephalgia.