Characteristic symptoms and methods of treatment of vascular headaches

1 What is it?

Currently, a vascular headache is also called migraine. This disease manifests itself mainly at a young age and is a prerequisite for the development of hypertension.

The main cause of the disease is unstable vascular tone, which can change under the influence of both external factors and some internal causes.

Because of the change in tone, small vessels, especially those that supply the brain and its membranes, suffer most. As a result of their expansion and the influx of large amounts of blood, there is a dilatation of the blood vessels, some squeezing them of the meninges, which are abundantly innervated, which leads to the development of pain.

Pain sensations of medium intensity are localized in the parietal region or do not have a clear localization. Appears in the morning, often supervised by taking hypertensive drugs or caffeine.

The prerequisites for development are:

• mental work;
• frequent psychogenic stress;
• long work behind the computer.

The development of pain is usually accompanied by a feeling of weakness, weakness.

Long-term vascular headache can lead to the development of some psychotic disorders, including increased irritability of the patient, depressiveness.

2 Clinic for the Development of Pathology

What are the symptoms that make it possible to suspect the development of a vascular headache?

The main clinical signs of pain are moderate pain in the parietal region. But these signs do not always appear in patients. Sometimes there may be a feeling of discomfort in the head, nausea, while the pain itself can be almost invisible.

Quite often, pathological manifestations occur with a feeling of raspiraniya in the head, increasing with a change in the position of the body. Provoke its aggravation can be loud sounds, bright light.

Pain syndrome can be observed for several days and spontaneously docked. In more severe cases, it can be present for several weeks, months or even years.

3 Diagnosis of the disease

What studies can determine the cause of the headache and confirm its vascular origin?

The diagnosis is based on the patient's examination data and the results of instrumental research.

During the acquaintance with the patient, it is necessary to clarify whether this pain has appeared for the first time or already had such attacks, what treatment was performed during the exacerbation, in addition, to clarify what this aggravation provokes, or whether it has an independent character and appears spontaneously.

It is necessary to find out whether there have been a history of strokes or other vascular disorders in the brain, whether any of the relatives suffer from such a disease.

Objective inspection will be poorly informative. The only symptoms indicative of the vascular etiology of the disease may be the appearance of dizziness when changing the position of the head, increasing pain during exacerbation during palpation of the neck and the area of ​​the shoulder.

Laboratory tests are not used to diagnose pain in the head, but are performed only to exclude other diseases that can occur with cephalic pain syndrome. Therefore, instrumental studies are the main ones for the diagnosis.

First of all, it is recommended to perform ultrasound examination of brachiocephalic arteries, the presence of atherosclerotic plaques or constrictions in them, which suggests the cause of the development of pain( due to insufficient blood flow), but this pain develops against the background of ischemia.

Weakness of the vascular wall can be determined by intravascular determination of blood pressure under the influence of drugs that increase or decrease the lumen of the arteries.

4 Therapeutic actions of

Given that the specific cause of the development of the pathology of vascular genesis is still not precisely defined, symptomatic therapy is used to improve the patient's condition.

Usually with the development of vascular pain in the head there is a decrease in blood pressure. To increase it, you can use drugs such as Caffeine, Citramon( a combination of drugs that have analgesic and vasoconstrictive effect).

With intense headaches, you can also use painkillers: Antalgin, Ketorolac.

To improve cerebral blood flow and vascular tone, it is recommended to temper the body with parallel use of tonic agents: green tea, vegetable decoctions and tinctures.

With a tonic purpose, you can go through an acupuncture course. The use of needles allows not only to improve local blood flow, but also normalize the majority of metabolic processes, improve the interaction of the nervous system with the body. Similar effect has some water procedures: Charcot's shower, underwater shower massage.

Prevention is the maintenance of a healthy lifestyle, the right balance of work and leisure, daily walks in the fresh air, avoidance of stress and overstrain. Comprehensive monitoring of the blood pressure is mandatory.

If you have the first symptoms of the disease, it is recommended that you immediately seek medical advice from a doctor for timely diagnosis of the disease and the appropriate treatment.