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Cluster Headache

What is Cluster Headache?

Cluster headache can also be regarded as one in which headache sufferers will experience extreme pain in the head. Unlike migraine headaches that most sufferers are women, otherwise the cluster will strike most men. Generally, patients with migraine will strike a duration of about 5 – 13 hours, while the cluster about below 1 an hour.

The pain will be felt on one side of the head then it will spread around the eyes and the front of the head. Unlike migraine headaches are very sensitive to light and locked themselves into a dark, whereas people tend to cluster cannot be silent.

They will be banging their heads against a wall or other hard objects. Usually the patient will talk to the doctor like this “If I could I would break my head and took these illness”. If the sufferer  say something just like that almost certain that they suffer from cluster headache and not the other.

Do not underestimate this headache, because there are people committed suicide, unable to bear the pain. So the patient should be treated aggressively because of intense and severe pain. These headaches would strike people with 3 to 7 times a day. So, immediately contact the nearest person and cares about you, if you get hit by this attack. In addition, alcohol will increase pain sufferers. These headaches often disappear within a few weeks or even months, then will come again suddenly with force.

Cluster Headache

Cluster Headache Symptoms and Treatment

Other symptoms of cluster headaches are likely to sweat around the face, eyes red. Starting from the head and then spreads out. The heart was beating very fast as you start to bear the pain. The possibility of your nose will feel some slight blockage (like a cold). These headaches would peak about 10 to 15 minutes.

This is unfortunate because until now there has been no proper treatment for cluster headache. Since the beginning of headache patients should be given excessive attention to keeping things that are not desirable. Maximal medical therapy will be very useful in the early stages of this headache attack. Giving pure oxygen is also no less important to calm the patient.

The drugs were given as topamax, depakote, verapamil, prednisone, sansert, lyrica, methergine. Please note that the injection of sumatriptan is also good for relieving headaches. Although it cannot be used every day. Your doctor may also prescribe medications such as lithium carbonate, nerve block, melatonin, and divalproex coticosteroids to relieve pain and stabbing pain in the head. All you need to know is the treatment given to the patient results will vary

In addition to the drugs mentioned above, for us natural treatment medications is the best way. Because this treatment method has no side effects. You can reduce tension, enough sleep, exercise regularly.

To reduce stress tension you can do yoga. Besides yoga also can maintain physical and mental fitness if done correctly. That way you can manage stress. Due to severe stress has been shown to trigger these headaches and other headaches, according to experts. So follow the advice of doctors to reduce or prevent cluster headache which  are very annoying.

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