Why do I get a headache when I cough?

If you get a headache when you cough, it may be due to a cold. If the cough is severe, it will often lead to some chain reactions and cause headaches. When this happens, you must get enough rest. You can eat some cough-relieving and lung-moistening foods to strengthen your nourishment. Of course, if the symptoms are not relieved, you should go to the hospital for examination in time.

Why do I get a headache when I cough?

Coughing is a protective respiratory reflex action of the human body. The cough reflex can effectively clear secretions in the respiratory tract or foreign objects that enter the airway. But coughing also has a downside. Severe coughing can lead to respiratory bleeding.

Weak immunity can easily lead to viral and bacterial infections, resulting in colds and coughs. Colds and coughs often manifest as cough headaches, which are neuralgic headaches.

The reason why you get a headache when you cough due to a cold is that the virus causes peripheral inflammatory substances in the body, which have pain-inducing and vasodilation effects. The vasodilation pulls and stimulates the pain endings in the blood vessels, thus causing a headache. In addition, the pathogenic factors themselves can also directly cause headaches, such as upper respiratory tract infection involving the paranasal sinuses causing rhinogenic headaches.

What should I do if I get a headache when I cough due to a cold?

It is normal to have a headache when you have a cold and cough, and the headache is mainly caused by the symptoms of cold and cough. Therefore, patients do not need to worry too much. They can use some folk remedies for treating colds and coughs to solve this problem. It is recommended to choose the following methods for treatment:

1. Rock sugar and Polygonatum odoratum soup. 30 grams of Polygonatum sibiricum and 50 grams of rock sugar. First wash the Polygonatum odoratum, soak it in cold water for 3-4 hours, then scoop out the Polygonatum odoratum and put it into a pot, add appropriate amount of rock sugar and water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat until the Polygonatum odoratum is cooked through. Suitable for tonifying deficiency and relieving cough, nourishing the lungs and relieving asthma. It is suitable for cough with little sputum, dry cough without sputum, coughing up blood, and poor appetite caused by lung and spleen yin deficiency. Take twice a day, eat the Polygonatum and drink the soup.

2. Grind 4 grams of Angelica dahurica, 2 grams of borneol, and 2 grams of asarum into powder, roll it into a paper tube, put the powder on fire, and inhale the smoke through your nose. This recipe is suitable for neuralgia.

3. Put two drops of raw white radish juice into each nostril (in both nostrils), twice a day, for 4 to 5 days, and it can be eradicated. Avoid eating pepper and pepper.

4. 6 grams of Chuanxiong, 6 grams of green tea, and appropriate amount of brown sugar. Boil one and a half bowls of water until one bowl remains, remove the residue and drink.

Although there are many causes of headaches, headaches that occur with colds and coughs are mostly due to viral infections. Therefore, as long as patients receive symptomatic treatment, pay attention to diet and exercise more, they can recover as soon as possible.