Contents:
- Medical Video: 5 Types of Headaches and How to Get Rid of All of Them
- What are the causes of right headaches?
- 1. Lifestyle factors
- 2. Infection and allergies
- 3. Use of excessive headache medication
- 4. Neurological causes
- 5. Other causes
Medical Video: 5 Types of Headaches and How to Get Rid of All of Them
Everyone certainly has a headache. However, what if the headache is just right? Have you ever experienced it? Right headache can be caused by various conditions.
What are the causes of right headaches?
1. Lifestyle factors
Headaches are most often caused by factors such as:
- Stressful.
- fatigue.
- Eating late or skipping meals.
- Neck muscle problems.
- Drug side effects, such as taking long-term painkillers
2. Infection and allergies
Sinus infections and allergies can also cause right headaches. Headaches due to sinus infections are the result of inflammation, which causes pressure and pain behind your cheekbones and forehead.
3. Use of excessive headache medication
Excessive use of headache drugs can actually cause headaches to the right. This is the most common secondary headache disorder, and this affects up to 5 percent in everyone. Drugs that are too often used for headaches tend to get worse when you wake up.
4. Neurological causes
Occipital neuralgia
There are two occipital nerves in the upper cervical spine that travel through the muscles to your scalp. Irritation of one of these nerves can cause pain due to pressure or tingling. Often the pain will only be on one side of your head.
Temporal arteritis
This is a condition where you have an inflamed or damaged artery that supplies blood to your head and brain. This pressure can cause other symptoms such as vision problems, shoulder or hip pain, jaw pain, and weight loss.
Trigeminal neuralgia
This is a chronic condition that affects the nerves that give the feeling of your face to your brain. The slightest stimulation on your face can trigger a jolt of pain.
5. Other causes
The more serious causes of headaches that can occur on one side include:
- Trauma.
- Aneurysm.
- Tumors, which can be benign or malignant (cancer).
