With increased pressure, the pill is a headache. What to take from a headache under pressure?

Who among us did not suffer from headaches? More often, rarely, strongly or weakly, the entire head or only its individual parts ... In one form or another, the headache is familiar to almost everyone. Statistics say that 80% of people have headaches at least once a year. According to neurologists, this ailment should not be dismissed - it will hurt, they say, and will pass. If you have a headache - it is necessary to understand the causes.

Causes of headaches

As doctors say, a headache can accompany about fifty different diseases. Here are just a few of them:

• Change (increase or decrease) of blood pressure;
• Infectious diseases (these can be as brain diseases - meningitis, encephalitis, atherosclerosis of cerebral vessels, and other infectious ailments - influenza, tonsillitis, pneumonia, etc.);
• Different types of poisoning (including food or alcohol - here you can include headaches with a hangover);
• Hormonal disorders, including premenstrual syndrome, pregnancy, etc .;
• Psychoemotional overstrain, neuroses;
• Diseases of the gastrointestinal tract;
• Allergies;
• Head trauma;
• Tumors;
• Weather changes.

When should you visit a neurologist?

As you can see, the reasons for the headache are very, very much. If this symptom worries you regularly, you should definitely visit a neurologist. Especially it is necessary to hurry with a visit, if the nature of the headache is completely new, unusual for you, and also in those cases if:

• You are forced to use painkillers at least once a week;
• The pain arose suddenly and has an "explosive" character;
• You suspect that the headache was caused by drugs that you drink on another occasion;
• You began to sleep longer or experience unusual drowsiness earlier;
• The headache appeared after a head injury, even if it's just an easy bruise;
• "In the company" with a headache you feel weakness in the limbs, experience retardation, problems with speech or understanding of others.

Remember: to establish the cause of the ailment and give specific advice on what to take from a headache, only a doctor can.

Pressure and headache

Often the pain becomes a manifestation of high or low blood pressure. Headache with increased pressure is a phenomenon so frequent that when it appears, many immediately grab the tonometer.

Why does the pressure increase?

So our organism is arranged, that at the slightest alarm or excitation the arterial pressure at us raises. When the excitement stops, the pressure, in theory, should return to the original level. However, according to some physicians, the pressure does not always return to the initial value, but stops at a slightly higher level than initially.

It is known that salt increases the blood pressure. Science knows the African tribes, traditionally not eating salty foods. In such tribes, hypertension is a great curiosity.

Another factor that affects the increase in pressure is overweight. It is estimated that about 4 kilometers of blood capillaries are required for the blood supply of each kilogram of fat cells. With an increase in the length of the vascular system, the heart has to work with an additional load to push blood through all tissues of the body. Strengthening of cardiac activity becomes the reason of the raised arterial pressure.

Is there always a headache with high blood pressure?

Strangely enough, not always. According to the World Health Organization, one third of hypertensive patients do not experience any unpleasant sensations. They barely have a headache, and they learn about the disease quite by accident during a physical examination or by measuring pressure "for the sake of interest".

For the development of a headache is not so much the very fact of hypertension, as the violation of the tone of the vessels - doctors call this phenomenon a vascular dystonia. Normally, when the arterial pressure rises, the walls of the vessels widen, and, on the contrary, narrow, when decreasing, thereby compensating for the pressure changes. In dystonia, however, the walls of the vessels can not respond properly to increased pressure. The pressure of blood on the walls of the vessels causes irritation of the nerve receptors in them. Impulses from these receptors enter the brain and are perceived by the body as a headache.

Hypertonic disease

This disease, the main symptom of which is high blood pressure. At the very beginning of the development of hypertension, the headache is unstable. It can occur if the patient has experienced trouble or is in a stuffy, smoky environment. The head can get sick also after drinking alcohol. Throbbing pain can occur anywhere, but most often it's the back of the head or whiskey. It arises suddenly and passes quite quickly. At this stage it would be a mistake to grab the drugs right away. It must be remembered that you can not take a tablet from a headache, but simply take a walk in the fresh air.

In the later stages of hypertension, headache has another reason. Increases not only vascular, but also intracranial pressure. The pain is accompanied by a sensation of severe heaviness in the head and general weakness. The skin becomes cyanotic at the same time. Possible attacks of severe headache with dizziness, vomiting, loss of consciousness.

How to treat hypertensive headaches?

With increased pressure, tablets from headaches are not the best solution. In any case, do not cling to them immediately. It is better to try the first other means of increased blood pressure. For example, pay attention to your daily routine. Try to relax more, allocate sufficient time for sleep and walks. At the initial stages of hypertension with increased pressure, tablets from headaches can be successfully replaced by a half-hour walk in the forest or in the park.

It is also necessary to change your diet. Reduce the amount of salt in the diet and discard other foods that cause increased pressure: different margarines, mayonnaise, pickles, and fatty meat varieties (such as goose and duck, pork, lamb), strong meat broths. Alcohol, flour products, eggs are also not desirable (they can be eaten up to three pieces per week). Sugar is usually recommended to replace honey, sweets - dried fruits. It is very desirable to increase the amount of boiled fish, seafood, fermented milk products in the diet. Practice shows that lifestyle changes are often enough to get rid of headaches at elevated blood pressure.

If the regime of the day and the diet did not lead to the desired results, and the problem of "what to take from the headache" is still bothering you, try for a quarter of an hour to take a foot bath with a water temperature of 45 degrees.

If you still can not do without drugs, try a means of increased pressure on the basis of herbs. Brew yourself a herb collection with motherwort or Valerian or - even easier - take a tincture of these herbs (30 drops enough). A "Bromkampor" tablet is also suitable. These remedies are especially indicated if you are concerned about high upper pressure.

Drugs that lower blood pressure

If you can not cope with hypertension without medication, the doctor will prescribe you a pill for hypertension, the list of which is very large. They are divided into several categories, depending on the mechanism of their effect on the body.

Soothing means

They help to cope with stress, reduce the production of adrenaline, which, among other things, causes an increase in pressure. These include valerian and motherwort in herbal preparations or in the form of tinctures, as well as complex preparations of valerian ("Cardiovalin", "Valocordin", etc.) However, when taking these drugs, it should be borne in mind that they somewhat inhibit the body's reactions. Sometimes it is difficult to lead an active lifestyle by taking these medications.

Vasodilator preparations

They are also used at increased pressure. Tablets from a headache of this type affect the walls of the vessels, causing them to expand, and thereby reduce blood pressure.

These drugs are divided into:

• Myotropic - those that directly affect the muscles of blood vessels ("No-shpa", "Papaverin", etc.).
• Neurotropic. They act on the nervous system, through it causing vasodilation and, as a consequence, lowering of arterial pressure ("Aminazine", "Nitroglycerin", "Fentolamin").

It should be noted that these drugs can enhance the heartbeat, and sometimes cause dizziness. Especially cautious to such medicines should concern the elderly, suffering an atherosclerosis.

Diuretics, or diuretics

Everyone knows that sodium salts provoke an increase in blood pressure. Hence, getting rid of excess salt with increased urinary excretion, we can easily reduce the pressure to normal values. However, the ease of this method is quite deceptive. Do not forget that along with sodium diuretics ("Hypothiazide", "Triamteren", "Indapamide" and many others) also produce potassium, necessary for the work of the nervous system, kidneys, intestines, involved in a variety of important biochemical processes. True, drug manufacturers have long taken this moment into account and invented potassium-sparing diuretics (such as "Amilorid" or "Veroshpiron"), but this invention does not nullify all possible side effects of diuretics. It is worth remembering that an overdose of diuretics can lead to an increase in cholesterol, reduce male potency, lead to sleep disorders and even cause diabetes mellitus.

Drugs acting on the intracellular level

This includes several groups of drugs. These are, for example, calcium antagonists ("Verapamil", "Diltiazem", "Nifedipine"), which are often prescribed to patients with atherosclerosis. Or inhibitors of the angiotensin-converting enzyme ("Captopril", "Enalapril", etc.). They are often chosen if the patient, together with high blood pressure, has impaired renal function. Beta-adrenoblockers (Anaprilin, Atenolol, Karvedilol, etc.) often become a drug of choice for those suffering from thyroid diseases.

In this article, only a few tablets are mentioned from increased blood pressure. The list of all such medicines is incredibly huge. Choosing what is right for you, you need to consider many factors. For example, if you have high upper pressure, you'd better lower it with soothing medications, if "jumping" the lower value - in this case you better use diuretics.

Hazards of self-treatment

However, it would be a big mistake to engage in the selection of medications yourself, without the advice of specialists. A person without medical education is simply not able to take everything into account and provide for, and the choice of the drug at random, by "poke" method, can lead to unpredictable consequences. Do not experiment with your health, ask your doctor for help!

Unfortunately, many people, suffering from a headache, rush not to the doctor, but to the pharmacy, to independently buy the product at increased pressure. Tablets for headaches that are sold without a prescription, according to many, are practically harmless and allow you to get rid of the problem without bothering yourself with a visit to the doctor. Doctors say that the "epidemic" of self- medication with anesthetics takes a terrifying scale and reminds us of a social disaster.

World statistics give frightening figures. Abuse of painkillers leads annually to hundreds of thousands of cases of adverse reactions. Tens of thousands of fans "swallow a tablet and run on business" for a long time fall into hospitals.

Many people are of the opinion that the headache with increased pressure is perfectly removed by painkillers (analgin, paracetamol and many other tablets that are safely sold in pharmacies without a prescription). And if so, then there is no need to go to the doctor. But the analgesics so loved by many of us do not heal at all, but only relieve pain. It may seem paradoxical, but with the regular use of painkillers, the headache intensifies. It arises more often, "light" intervals appear less and less often, when the head does not hurt at all. The headache gradually turns into a daily torture.
Worse, long-term use of analgesics leads to changes in the composition of the blood and, as a result, to a deterioration in immunity. But frequent colds are not the most serious payoff for self-medication. After the blood begins to suffer liver, kidneys, gastrointestinal tract and other organs.

As we see, self-medication is not as harmless as it seems. Therefore, being interested in different sources of their illness and the methods of its treatment, the choice of therapy is left to professional doctors.