Don't forget to measure your blood pressure when you have a headache in your life. Clinically, more than 30% of the patients have a close relationship between headache and blood pressure, but many people can't tell the blood pressure when they have a headache, which greatly delays the diagnosis and treatment of the disease.
Headache caused by hypertension usually has the following characteristics: 1. For example, the headache caused by hypertension in young adults is more similar to migraine; the headache caused by hypertension in middle-aged and old people is mostly forehead, occipital pain, or total headache, and the headache can be aggravated by lowering head or holding breath. 2. The nature of headache is heavy pressure pain, intermittent dull pain, distending pain and pulsatile pain, sometimes persistent pain, but the pain is not severe. 3. Headache is heavier when waking up in the morning, and it can be relieved after getting up and exercising. 4. Often have dizziness, dizziness, tinnitus, insomnia, forgetfulness, irritability and other symptoms. 5. When malignant hypertension is accompanied by hypertensive encephalopathy, headache is persistent and severe headache.
Therefore, once the headache, it is best to measure blood pressure, for the correct diagnosis and treatment of hypertension is of great significance. First of all, it is very important to measure the blood pressure changes of headache patients frequently for early detection and prevention of hypertension in headache patients; second, if hypertension is the cause of headache, then taking drugs to reduce blood pressure in time will relieve headache quickly; Thirdly, for headache patients with hypotension, it is necessary to further identify the causes of hypotension and make corresponding treatment. Finally, headache is sometimes a signal of sudden stroke in patients with high blood pressure. When the blood pressure of patients rises suddenly, they often have symptoms such as blurred consciousness, convulsions, severe vomiting, temporary loss of vision, etc. at this time, the family members must be alert and send the patients to the hospital immediately.