- Headache is one of the worse,irritable problem among people during their active shedule.
- Headache is a condition of pain in the head; sometimes neck or upper back.
- Commonly most of the headaches are self limiting and need no medicine.
- There are two types of headache: Primary headache and Secondary headache.
- Primary headaches are not associated with other diseases.
- Secondary headaches are caused by associated disease.
Common headaches include
- Eye strain,
- Dehydration(followed by starvation,diarrhoea,vomiting),
- Low blood sugar,
- Sinusitis,
- Tension headache,
- Migraine,
- Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (headache with visual symptoms due to raised intracranial pressure),
- Ictal headache,
- Cluster headache,
- "Brain freeze" (also known as: ice cream headache),
- Thunderclap headache,
- Vascular headache,
- Toxic headache,
- Coital headache (sex headache),
- Hemicrania continua(one sided headache),
- Rebound headache (medicine over-use headache),
- Red wine headache(alcoholic abuse),
- "Spinal headache" (after lumbar puncture or related procedure that will lower the intracranial pressure),
- Hangover (caused by heavy alcohol consumption).
- A large percentage of headaches among females are caused by hormonal imbalence such as ever-fluctuating estrogenduring menstrual years.
- Headache associated with specific symptoms may warrant urgent medical attention.
- particularly sudden, severe headache or sudden headache associated with a stiff neck; headaches associated with fever, convulsions or accompanied by confusion or loss of consciousness; headaches following a blow to the head, or associated with pain in the eye or ear; persistent headache in a person with no previous history of headaches; and recurring headache in children.
DIAGNOSIS:
- History taking plays the most important step in diagnosing a headache patient.
- Primary or Secondary headaches are clearly differentiated by careful history taking.
- Headache without other associated diseases or primary headaches include migraine headaches, tension headaches, and cluster headaches.
- Headache associated with other disease or secondary headache include serious and life threatening diseases such as meningitis, encephalitis [commonly known as brain fever], cerebral aneurysms, extremely high blood pressure, and brain tumors.
- Reading temperature
- Complete blood count,
- Thyroid function test,
- Bleeding&Clotting time,
- Brain scans[CT or MRI], and
- Lumbar puncture (spinal tap) are the common investigationsto establish these diagnoses
- Not all headaches require medical attention, and many respond with simple pain killers such as paracetamol or NSAID's(aspirin, ibuprofen,etc)
- In recurrent unexplained headaches,the patients are advised to maintain a "headache diary" which carries the type of headache, associated symptoms,precipitating and aggravating factors etc.
- Secondary headaches are treated as per the existing associated disease with the help of relevent investigations.
- Headache is dealt under head and neck problem in Siddha system.
- Siddha system of medicine have a detailed classification related the diseases of head and neck.
- The Siddha text "PARARAJA SEKHARAM" describe head and neck problems in detail as "KABHALA NOIKAL".
- The classifications given in the text are really amazing.
- Diseses of Vertex,Brain, Ear, Nose, Eye, Cheek, Gum, Teeth, Tongue, Pharynx, upper & lower Lip, Forehead, Occipit, Eyebrow and Neck are finely classified and the individual treatments also said in detail.
- Suspected causes for head and neck problems also explained in the said text.
- Patients with headache of various aetiology are being treated in my clinic daily.
- Case history of each and every patient is carefully recorded and then relevent investigations are carried out.
- The headache is analised for Primary or Secondary type.
- After getting exact diagnosis,the patients are being treated with powerful herbo-minaral Siddha medicines.
- The patients with serious clinical signs are immediately reffered to proper equiped hospitals for emergency medical care.
- Sinus headache,Migraine headache,Tention headache,One sided headache, headache associated with APD(Acid Peptic Disorder)and Cervicalspondylosis are successfully treated in Siddha medicine in a very short period of 40 days.
- This medicine does not cause any harmful effects like gastric irritation,sedation or toxicity.
- Also number of patients with chronic headache without proper diagnosis even after full investigation are specially treated here with individulaly made Siddha medicines.
- I have got excellent results in almost all cases of headache with dramatic Siddha medicines.
- Don't miss to get a Siddha cure in such difficult and challenging headaches.