How is a headache caused?

Question

Is it caused because of something going on in your brain like with your brain cells or is it something else?

Answer 1

There are different reasons. My boyfriend gets "hungry" headaches. When he eats, his goes away.

I get migraines. They do not know specifically what causes them. It can be anything from a flashing light to something in your body that affects you in that way. There are many reasons to migraines. I also get bad headaches that are close to migraines.

A lot of the time, they're caused by something simple - such as staying up too late, playing in the sun too long, or taking a bump to the head. But sometimes, headaches last longer or are accompanied by other symptoms.

Headaches can have a wide range of causes and many levels of severity. It's important to understand how to recognize when a headache is just a passing pain, and when it's something more and your child needs medical treatment.

What's a Headache?
Most headaches happen outside the skull, in the nerves, blood vessels, and muscles that cover the head and neck. The muscles or blood vessels can swell, tighten, or go through other changes that stimulate or put pressure on the surrounding nerves. These nerves send a rush of pain messages to the brain, which brings on a headache.

What Causes Headaches?
In general, kids get the same types of headaches as adults. And headaches often are hereditary, so if you or your partner get them, your child may get them too.

Some of the many potential headache triggers include:

certain medications (headaches are a potential side effect of some)
too little sleep or sudden changes in sleep patterns
skipping meals
becoming dehydrated
being under a lot of stress
having a minor head injury
using the computer or watching TV for a long time
menstruation
experiencing changes in hormone levels
taking a long trip in a car or bus
listening to really loud music
smoking
smelling strong odors such as perfume, smoke, fumes, or a new car or carpet
drinking or eating too much caffeine (in soda, coffee, tea, and chocolate)
consuming certain foods (such as alcohol, cheese, pizza, chocolate, ice cream, fatty or fried food, lunchmeats, hot dogs, yogurt, aspartame, or anything with the seasoning MSG)
In some cases, headaches are caused by certain infections, such as:

ear infections
flu
Lyme disease
sinus infections
strep throat
urinary tract infections
But most headaches aren't signs that something more is wrong. Only 10% of headaches are caused by other medical conditions, such as infections or other serious illnesses.

What Are the Common Types of Headaches?
Two of the more common kinds of headaches that kids get are tension headaches and migraines.

Answer 2

Go to a neurologist. Have it checked. I don't think the poor eyesight is causing the headaches, if correction isn't fixing both problems. But, if the problem is serious, then neither will aspirin or tylenol, or prescription pain killers. See, if you can close your eyes, put a cold, wet cloth over them, and relax for half an hour or so, and make the headaches go away, maybe it's your eyes, and the eye doctor isn't prescribing your correction right. But if that doesn't work, then it isn't your eye sight that is the cause.

Answer 3

http://www.calpoly.edu/~smwong/Headache/index.html


Headache is defined as pain in the head that is located above the eyes or the ears, behind the head (occipital), or in the back of the upper neck. Headache, like chest pain or dizziness, has many causes.

What are the causes of headaches?

There are two types of headaches: primary headaches and secondary headaches. Primary headaches are not associated with (caused by) other diseases. Examples of primary headaches are migraine headaches, tension headaches, and cluster headaches. Secondary headaches are caused by associated disease. The associated disease may be minor or serious and life threatening.

There are five types of headache: vascular, myogenic (muscle tension), cervicogenic, traction, and inflammatory

Answer 4

No, it's not nearly that deep. If it was, it would be something more serious and sinister. Headaches are entirely muscular. They are caused by tension and dehydration. The muscles around the head and skull tighten and cause considerable discomfort. That's what a headache is. Prolonged headaches that seem to be recurrent are called Migranes, they tend to hurt more or just be more continuous.

Answer 5

Generally, a headache is caused by expanding blood vessels within the head......

Thus blood thinners such as aspirin work to ease the pressure on these vessels, thinning the blood and lowering the pressure.

Answer 6

A headache miracously appears whenever one wants to have sex with their wife of over 10 years.

Answer 7

It's caused by pressure on your brain......your brain actually swells and that's why you get a headache.

Answer 8

Imbalance of body energies make meridians excessive/deficient. They inflame nerves connected to them. Inflamed nerves give pressure on nearby cells. Brain cells are most delicate and sensitive hence feel slight change in pressure and cause pain.
GB & UB Meridians pass over head and are generally responsible for h/a.
Alternate systems of medicines will only help you.
Pl try simple acupressure given below.

There is no medicine for H/A OR MIGRAINE. Not only these but for RA, OA, Back ache and almost all painful diseases. Hence they become chronic.

Acidity, WORRY, sadness, excessive wind, cold , heat, sour food and sinusitis, constipation, intestinal inflammation; drug side effects, stress, bad smell, TV & COMPUTER SOMETIMES, Blockage in the flow of Vital Energy, BODY CONSTITUTION etc are their causes. None of them can be treated with medicine. Our 100% success in treating migraine &H/A confirms it.

Acupuncture is the best treatment.
I can treat it with naturopathy and YOG, but how can you manage pl see.

Pain killers don't treat the pain but we loose the sense of pain for some time; in that duration our body itself treats sometime and credit goes to meds.

The useless drugs have tremendous power of side effects like liver/kidney failures, ulcer, inflammation of intestines and lot more.

Avoid late sleeping if possible; worry, tension, spicy foods, sour fruits, stale bakery foods, SMOKING and alcohole.

Sweet foods, COCOANUT WATER,sweet fruits, milk, rice, SPROUTS, SALADS and good sleep will help if cough is not there.

But you try one herbal remedy- two drops of drumstick leaves' juice in opposite nostril if one side pains and both nostrils if full H/A will give you rescue. Betel leaf helps but it is very strong.

If it is acute pl search a painful point 3-6 mm behind your thumb nail and press it, H/A will disappear within 30 seconds.

For forehead/eye pain the points are in front of nails on the finger tips or 3-7 mm below.

It may disappear naturally too.


Source(s):
SHREE SWASTHYAYOG TREATMENT, TRAINING & RESEARCH INSTITUTE
R.H. 19, Jhulelal Society, Sector 2/E, Airoli, Navi Mumbai, INDIA.

Answer 9

Pressure on your nerves I think

Answer 10

Read this:
http://www.healthsquare.com/headaches4.htm