How effectively to help itself at a headache?

At first about the reasons
Whether the fact that women feel headaches much more often than men will calm you. It is the truth, we have continuous changes of level of estrogen that is an indicator of various stages of a menstrual cycle. Headaches are more often observed in the period of an ovulation, during the premenstrual period, at the time of the periods. Observe yourself if headaches at you fall on these periods, then it is connected with change of level of hormones. Celebrate days when you are tormented by pains in the diary, compare to the calendar monthly, after 3 months of observations you receive the exact answer whether your headaches are connected with a menstrual cycle.

Besides, the doctors studying headaches speak about products provokers for a headache. Are such: red wine, cheeses, kofeinsoderzhashchy products, preserved foods. Conditions of tension, intellectual tension can become the reasons. Sometimes the headache is a consequence of other diseases, such as caries, diseases of teeth and gums, deterioration in sight, feverish states, colds.


Headache of women
Generally at women distinguish two types of headaches at women: migraines and muscular tension (spasms). Conditions of tension are noted by the strong pressure upon a back part of the head, it though considerable, but does not "switch off" the woman from life, it is possible to continue to work with such pain, as a rule. These pains last no more couple of hours.

Migraines are more painful states: these are the pulling, aching pains, usually on the one hand a forehead, are followed by nausea, sometimes vomiting. Migraines last from several hours to several days! From 5 to 10% of the women having migraines as experts speak have special bright and multi-colored aura.

Women whom we call workaholics test migraines more often. The bad dream, morning rise at different times, a long dream on days off – these habits of the working women provoke migraines.


How effectively to help itself
Many women have paracetamol, aspirin or analginum in a handbag, and it helps them. However tablets are shown not all, not always, besides, even doctors say that the help without medicines becomes more and more important presently when we also are so stuffed with chemistry and synthetic medicines. Therefore it is worth trying some of easy ways of disposal of a headache:

- Massage of the head. Place thumbs of hands on the centers of temples. Mass with circular motions within a minute or two. If to make such massage at the very first symptoms of a headache, then it is possible to prevent it quickly.

- Hot bathtub. It can help your muscles to relax.

- Visualization. Present the pain as the shrouding head as though the invisible scarf is tied around the head. Mentally untie this pain, try to feel how pain leaves.

- If the headache is caused by cold, then it is often enough to warm a neck. Make the warming compress, or spread with the warming ointment a back part of a neck.

- For migraine – a frost. If migraine is followed by small heat (you kind of feel that the head "burns"), then cold "works" better, than warmly. Put ice in a cellophane package, wrap it in a towel – and here to you the simple cooling compress. It is possible to keep constantly in the refrigerator a bag with peas or rice, and also to use this bag as a compress on a forehead.

- Lie down in the dark room. This council for those who test migraines. Lay down in the dark and quiet room, lie down hour or more, you will lighten.

- Have a bite. Sometimes the headache is a sign of hunger, blood there is not enough sugar. Before taking a pill, remember when last time you ate. Perhaps, it was long ago therefore having a snack will help to cope with pain. It is better to eat in the small portions and it is frequent, it will exclude headaches for hunger or thirst.

- Make coffee break. If you feel the beginning of migraine, then it is worth drinking a cup of strong coffee as soon as possible. It is possible then take aspirin. Caffeine affects vessels and the nervous terminations, in this case, also as ice.

- Exclude caffeine. If you have not a migraine, then caffeine, on the contrary, can not help, and provoke constant headaches. In this case doctors advise gradually to refuse kofeinsoderzhashchy drinks. Reduce day norm of coffee to only one cup (120-180 ml), and whenever possible, drink it as it is possible more slowly. And over time it is desirable to pass to drinks without caffeine: juice, milk, flower teas.

- Keep the diary of your headache. It will help to diagnose a disease correctly. Fix not only the monthly cycle, but also what you eat. It is connected with the fact that everything is very individual in headache questions. And for some chocolate or wine can provoke a headache, for example.

- If you have migraines, exclude from a diet the products of long storage, marinated and preserved foods containing glyutamat sodium, nitrates, instant products, instant soups.

- At a usual headache not only massage of the head, but also massage of a neck and shoulders can help. These muscles, as a rule, strain in stressful situations and cause headaches. If there is nobody nearby to make to you massage, then very accurately to a porazminayta a neck and shoulders. It is useful to do so: lower shoulders down, at the same time pull the head up, and in the opposite direction – the head down, and shoulders upward. Do all manipulations with a humeral belt very accurately, not sharply!

- Drink waters. Often headaches are connected with dehydration. Perhaps, your organism needs more water, than you consume, for a conclusion of toxins. Accumulation of toxins results in slackness and fast fatigue. At once accept two glasses of water. It will not save from pain instantly, but considerably will weaken it.

- Breathe deeply. Close eyes and make several slow and deep breaths and exhalations. It will remove stress in a body, will weaken. If you own methods of meditation, then with the correct breath it considerably will help with a complex.

- Walk on foot. Walking weakens. If pain is caused by a lack of fresh air, an unpleasant surrounding situation, then you too will lighten at once.

- Accept anesthetic. Sometimes it is better too, than to suffer from pain. Do not forget to wash down a tablet with a large amount of water (a big full glass). It is better to take a nap a little. But be not fond of tablets, accept only at urgent need, problems with kidneys and a liver in the future can become by-effects.

- The diet of the women testing migraines has to combine sheet vegetables, seafood, nuts and wholegrain products.

- Some medicines, according to researches, can block migraines. Only decide whether it is necessary to force an organism tablets. Nevertheless, calcium medicines, antidepressants, aspirin tablets at some women stop migraines. For example, one tablet of aspirin every other day (the 325th milligram) reduces migraines by 20%.


In what case to visit the doctor
Specialists in a headache allocate up to three hundred kinds of this pain. Most of them are the pains connected with tension of muscles. Other states are migraines of various character. But conclusion of doctors one: if you feel pain which prevents you to live, then you should not postpone a visit to the expert. And the following has to become the guarding symptoms accompanying a headache:
- concentration loss, confusion
- numbness, cooling
- sight problems, indistinct vision
- frequent headaches (more often than usually) at people after 50
- the chronic headaches bringing inconveniences.