How to get rid of a headache in the temples and the back of the head

1 Causes of the occurrence of the disease

Causes can be many, and they can be individual, as well as the approach to treatment.

• Infectious diseases. It can be both viral and bacterial infections: influenza, acute respiratory infections, tonsillitis, brucellosis.
• Migraine. Most often, the pain affects one part of the head and gives it to the temple. Can be accompanied by photophobia, vomiting and nausea.
• Poisoning. Symptoms of poisoning, in addition to vomiting and diarrhea, may be pain in the temples. A classic example is hangover syndrome.
• Insomnia. Very often, lack of sleep is the cause of cephalalgia. Such a pain can save a full sleep.
• Oscillations of the hormonal background. Often, pain in the temples of women complain in the menopause, before menstruation or in the first trimester of pregnancy.
• Blood pressure jumps. The cause of cephalalgia in this case can be both increased and low blood pressure, it is often accompanied by deterioration of hearing and noise in the ears.
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• Fasting. Prolonged abstinence from food, in half the cases causes throbbing pain in the temples.
• Pheochromocytoma. With this disease, a large amount of adrenaline is produced and this produces pressure leaps and severe pain in the temples.

In the back of the head, the head can "bother" at least as often as in the temples. Causes of pain may differ from those that cause pain in the temples. The most common of these:

• Neuralgia. If it affects the occipital nerve, it is accompanied by shooting pain.
• Cervical osteochondrosis. In this case, the pain gives in the neck, there is dizziness or darkens in the eyes.
• Cervical migraine. It differs from the usual one in that the pain is localized in the occipital part of the head and gives into the whiskey. Cervical migraine, like the usual, is accompanied by vomiting and photophobia.
• Cervical spondylosis. With it due to outgrowths, the mobility of the neck is limited. It is often accompanied by constant pain in the occipital part of the head.
• Pain of tension. If a person does not change positions for a long time, or experiences moral tension, after a certain period, he has pain in the back of his neck.
• Malocclusion. In this case, the pain is paroxysmal, and such seizures can last for several days, and discomfort increases in the evening.
• Intracranial pressure. It is characterized by heaviness in the head, nausea.

Stressful situations or depression often provoke a headache, in which case it can be localized in both the temples and the occiput.

2 Preventative measures

In order to get rid of attacks of cephalalgia, you need to revise your daily routine. A full-fledged sleep and proper nutrition will reduce the number of seizures by half or even help them get rid of. It is also necessary to have enough time to be outdoors and give your body a little physical activity. If possible, you should avoid stressful situations and treat chronic diseases in time.

3 Treatment activities

If serious diseases are provoked, then only full-fledged treatment and elimination of the causes will help. Do not delay the visit to the doctor, if the attacks of cephalgia are more frequent, it is accompanied by vomiting, nausea, dizziness or loss of consciousness or the headache becomes a constant companion.

If you have a headache, and this is not a migraine, you should not rush with taking medication. If possible, you need to give access to fresh air or massage the whiskey. A good effect can be given by a cold or hot compress, which must be applied to the part of the head where pain is localized. Compresses can be swapped in places every two minutes.

In case a migraine attack begins, take anesthetics at the aura stage, if it is or at the beginning of an attack. Treat migraine as non-steroidal drugs: Nurofen, Aspirin, Ketanov, and drugs from the group of triptans: Antimigren, Zolmigren, Amigren, Nomigren.

Popular and common drugs for relieving the headache are the combined drugs: Citramon, Citropos, Ascopar, Bol-Run, Dolaren. Or drugs that relieve spasm: Spasgo, Spazmalgon, Kombizpasm, No-shpa, Papazol.

It should be remembered that pain killers take away the headache, but do not eliminate its cause, and their long reception can provoke cephalgia.