Why does my head hurt from time to time?

Sometimes the head will have a headache, which is quite common in our life. It is very painful for the patients and brings a lot of troubles to study, work and life. There are many reasons for headaches. It can be said that headaches are caused by some bad habits in life, and they may also be caused by some diseases. Some psychological factors are also important causes of headaches. Let us learn about this aspect below.

Why does my head hurt from time to time?

1. Vascular headache:

Such as migraine and cluster headache: it is a kind of paroxysmal intracranial vasoconstriction and reduced local blood flow, causing visual symptoms, and then causing extracranial artery dilation and headache. The triggering factors of migraine include mental stress, fatigue, climate change, strong light stimulation, scorching sun exposure, hunger, eating foods high in tyramine (such as chocolate, cheese, citrus), drinking, vasodilating foods, oral contraceptives and diuretics, etc.

2. Tension headache

Also known as muscle contraction headache or neuralgia, it is the most common functional headache. It is more common in young women. The attacks are intermittent and are often caused by tension, anxiety, fatigue, incorrect writing or reading posture, etc., which lead to continuous contraction of the head, face or neck muscles and cause headaches.

3. Benign functional headache

Such as primary throbbing headache; cold stimulation headache; benign cough headache; benign fatigue headache; external compression headache; sexual activity headache, etc.

4. Central headache:

1. Space-occupying headache - caused by brain tumors and brain cysts. The headache progressively worsens and is severe and dull pain, which may be accompanied by symptoms of increased intracranial pressure such as dizziness, nausea and vomiting. 2. Infectious head is caused by various encephalitis such as tuberculous meningitis and encephalitis, meningitis, and arachnoiditis, and often has infection symptoms such as fever. 3. Cerebrovascular disease headache - seen in cerebral hemorrhage, infarction, brain trauma, cerebral vascular malformation, rheumatic cerebrovasculitis, etc.

5. Cranial neuralgia

1. Trigeminal neuralgia - more common in women over 40 years old, paroxysmal, electric shock-like pain lasting tens of seconds to several minutes, accompanied by facial muscle twitching. 2. Occipital neuralgia: electric shock-like pain or tingling in the Fengchi area behind the occipital bone.

6. Headache in the ENT department

1. Otogenic headache - otitis media, mastoiditis; 2. Odontogenic - toothache; Rhinogenic - sinusitis, nasopharyngeal carcinoma; 3. Ocular - refractive error, glaucoma. 7. Symptomatic headache - such as fever, infection, high blood pressure, etc. 8. Cervical headache: caused by cervical spondylosis.