If your head is exploding you better check what is the source of the pain – sometimes it can point a serious medical condition.

Headaches might bother us during our lives. Sometimes it is caused from pressure, a cold or sometimes from a serious medical issues. Recognizing what sort of headaches you are suffering from by understand its symptoms, could assist with the right treatment to relif the pain.

1. Tension Type Headache is the most common type Headache in the world. Estimated 40% of population suffers from this type of Headache in kind of levels during the year.

Characteristic: headaches in both sides, without heartbeat and light feeling of pain. appears in light up to medium feeling of pain, without additional symptoms, and lasts for half an hour up to many long hours.

Treatment: For this kind of headaches it is recommended to use Pain Relief that are usually sold on your near by pharmacy.

2. Migraine neuralgic disease that causes unbearable pain that sometimes could get worse and could cause total dysfunctional. According to medical sources, about 18% of women and 6% of men suffer from this disease.

Characteristic: usually appears in morning time. In most cases the pain strikes in one side of the head. Accompany with a weakness feeling, hard time to concentrate, hard neck, light and noise sensitivity, nausea and pallor.

Treatment: The first treatment is similar to a light type of headaches. If pain relief pills fail to help, contact your doctor for more hardcore pills.

3. In 20% of cases there is combination of Migraine headache and neurologist symptoms. This manifested in eyesight disturbance, motorized disturbance, sensation disturbance and speech disturbance. Most of these cases last for less than an hour.

4. Medications overdosing headaches – This is rare case where only 1% of population is suffering from.

Characteristic: Daily headaches or almost daily. The sick person uses a daily medication treatment, most of the time with growing doses. The pain vary.

Treatment: Consider a preventing treatment, at the same time of the acute treatment and avoid over 10 days of monthly treatment.

5. Headache secondary to another sickness – There are headaches caused by another sicknesses such as secular. Inner and external skull infection, metabolic cases like hypoglycemia, neural syndromes and secondary pain to head injury. In all those cases it is recommended to consult a doctor.

Cases you should instantly visit the Doctor -

Some cases of headaches requires an intervention of an expert doctor. It is recommended to go to examination in the following case:

• When a sudden headache starts with high intensity.
• Head injury.
• A severe headache or a pain that appears with extreme pain, for the first time of the persons life.
• Rigorousness of hours and constant pain.
• Any kind of neurological issue – eyesight interruption, motoricale interruptions, sensation interruption etc.
• Fever and headaches – requires instant attention – could be a caused by a life threatening disease, for example, Meningitis.
• A pain that projects in a severe way to the neck and shoulders and makes it hard to turn the neck.
• A pain that wakes you up from your sleep or when waking up in the morning.
• Headaches that appear in children younger than 5 years old or grownup older than 55.
• A change from previous headaches that person experience in the past.