Headaches: An Overview and review

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to conduct a review of concepts of headache and relations through reviewing related literatures available online. Headache is a symptom of pain affecting the neck or head. It is a common pain in many people, about 12 percent of adults are affected worldwide, children are also affected. The discomfort due to headache affects learning, education, productivity, and economics. Most common headache types are migraine, tension headache, cluster headache and medication overuse. Another classification viewed headaches as primary and secondary. Primary headaches are occuring without underlying medical condition, while secondary headaches are occuring due to medical conditions such as infection or drug abuse. Usually, after diagnosis, specific headache type determined is eased through treatment with painkillers or handled by removing the precipitating factor. People suffering from primary headaches should eat properly, abstain from excess light, noise, drug, alcohol, junk foods, stress, etc. Use of enough sleep, avoiding drug abuse, proper hydration, behavioral change, awareness, are some instances of prevention against headaches.