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accounts for us and for our planet. global ideas is on its way to renew more conservation. how do we make cities, reader, how can we protect to have what to do with them all our ways? we can make a difference by choosing smart solutions. overstaying said in our ways global ideas or mental series included $3000.00 on do you do it online? do you sometimes get headaches in this installment of dw health? so might be just the ticket coming up. mm hm. vine, tiny electrical shocks can help treat headaches. and how a foot bond with mustard powder, it can also bring relief,
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how botox therapy can treat migraines. and when the heat from a hair dryer might be, oh, you need all that and more coming up on this edition of in good shape with every day 1300000000 people around the world, say i have a headache, but our brain itself can't feel pain it doesn't have pain receptors, the sensation of pain comes from somewhere else, from pressure in the maninder. yes. oh, blood vessels, headaches are very common. and so all the theories about what causes them a sensation of pressure pounding or throbbing pain, headaches can be occasional,
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or chronic. doctors distinguish between more than 200 different types of headache, the most common are migraines and tension headaches. but what causes this misery in our head could the rise of smartphones. lita, blaine, it's a question that laws need director of the headache center at berlin's shelly t hospital gets asked a lot to him. so thinking she had a, there is an all that much by way of reliable researching a few smaller studies have shown an increase in headaches. coinciding with increased use of smartphones, as it does seem logical that constantly looking down at your phone could lead to tense muscles which could trigger tension headaches on school sprints to the home. we've also seen that headaches and migraines are on the rise and children and teenagers, and one factor is almost certainly increased media and smartphone use for me as a medium domino is often little too much beer or wine can lead to
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a pounding headache the next day no surprise there, but some people say certain foods give them headaches, like certain kinds of cheese. for example, this individual is a winter seasonal triggers. very a great deal from one person to the next. i'm very well if you realize you get a headache, whenever you eat a certain kind of cheese, you should avoid it, of course. but there's nothing like a migraine or a headache diet that will cure every one of their headaches. i am i looted to leaning all smells with food. when their head starts to pound, many people just want to lie down and rest. but it's that always a good idea from greenacres to see here. in the case of migraines, it's true that they make many people sensitive to noise and light. so lying down in a quiet dog room can help, even though it's not always possible. see for other types of headaches like an ordinary tension, headaches, mostly a little bit of activity,
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can often hold from spoon and thus is actual fact, you know, missiles, so here to through them, what matters is what type of headache you have. all you use either be and what tends to help you must in liason food. then there are people who get a headache when the weather changes. skip just kind of beginning of feta. there's no such thing as migraine weather, but we do know and our own research bears that out. that certain weather changes can be a trigger for some people come from. it could be a shift from high to low barometric pressure, or the ship from wet to dry or dry to wet all. so yes, weather can be a trigger, but you can't generalize it. we find mine on a sudden thunderclap, headache that feels like the worst headache of your life can be a sign of a ruptured aneurism or a brain hemorrhage, especially if it's accompanied by visual symptoms or numbness. if that happens,
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you should go to the nearest emergency room but doctor name does have some tips for the majority of people who suffer from headaches. in the beginning, musical snaps, people who get frequent headaches can often get some relief from regular endurance exercise. that could be jogging 2 or 3 times a week or other kinds of endurance activities on it's much the relaxation techniques such as progressive muscle, relaxer, sation, of the or yoga or whatever you enjoy. can also be very helpful in reducing the frequency of headaches once and lifestyle factors can also help you stress management because regular sleep and meals and trying to avoid over doing it. alaska moves for my drinking. lots of fluids can also help researchers in math. strict found that 7 large glasses of water a day can help relieve migraines. are many children these days also suffer from headaches. doctors say they are various
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reasons including pressure to do well at school, or parents who are too demanding. emotional stress or bullying. too much time spent on devices or not enough sleep and physical activity. children with chronic headaches often end up with other problems, like frequent absences from school or trouble maintaining friendships. they're also more likely to develop a pain disorder as adults. that's why parents should take chronic headaches seriously and experienced pediatrician can help figure out what's causing them. and of his strategies will treatment 10 year old max, she had a good day at school j a day without a headache for the past 3 years. he's been suffering frequent, severe headaches and has missed a lot of school. i was think light i'm it just hurts a bit when it start as well, but then it keeps getting worse. sometimes it gets worse till i vomit,
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and then it starts to get better even was done. the tied him of the nico veto max. he gets migraines, every 7 to 14 days, then he can't go to school or soccer dreaming. hi, sweethearts, here's your water bottle. remember to drink lots max, his family also suffers when he has a migraine them and on, and vine spike. he just lies there. solving hats vast on, on off, and then he gets really nauseated and ends up vomiting quite violently several times than current. that's more time, it's really awful for me as a mother because i can't do anything to help heaven. max is being treated by neurologist astrid gondola. she is specialized in headaches and migraines and says more and more children and teens are suffering from them. skipped over there are over 200 different kinds of headache among children. migraines of the most common
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width and without an aura and aura can involve visual disturbances, tingling sensations in your face, difficulty speaking or dizziness and can then their attention. headaches, which children describe as feeling like a helmet squeezing their heads. it doesn't get worse with exertion. the way a migraine does not. 13 year old for litzy, das also says astrid gondola. she has migraines that are less severe, but happen almost every day. so if dish lim as is head scobee about a year and a half ago, it got really bad for that much before that. i had a lot of headaches, but after that it got a lot worse. it's sasha, her headaches got worse after she finished elementary school and went on to secondary school. can draw. the says that's not unusual. gordon vaughn and kenneth and you had aches in children and teens often have a genetic aspect, meaning they've inherited a tendency to get migraines or headaches. but hormones often play a role to,
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especially for girls when they reach puberty. and lifestyle fact has also come into play, the getting the right mix of exercise, exertion and relaxation can help. schools also have a role to play poker, they can encourage good nutrition exercise not overdoing it with smartphones. smartphones for litzy jars is going to start a headache therapy to get her migraines under control. hi, miss at hall fietta. i looking forward to being able to play sports again, even when it's warm in the summer. to do more things generally like sports at school and not have headaches, slow me down, screening and tranquil. oh, we all get headaches from time to time. but when might be a sign of something serious? one sign is when they are accompanied by neurological changes such as confusion,
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numbness, lead speech. if you get a sudden headache, that's the worst headache of your life, you should go to the hospital as quickly as possible. but for more than 90 percent of headache suffer as there is no organic kohl's. even so there is health stiffened. teufel has specialized in pain medicine for more than 10 years. so he's an expert on the different types of headaches. one especially severe form is cluster headaches. mm hm. cluster cough. now people who suffer from cluster headaches get very severe pain on one side of the head. usually it's focused behind the eye and often the eye tears up and gets red. 10 and long went on was august. cluster headaches are comparatively rare and mostly affect men, unlike migraines, by them because in the, in migraines, the pain is usually on one side of the head. but not always. that's just the
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classic form on the left or the right side. usually it has a kind of throbbing or pulsating quality. one and migraines are usually accompanied by other symptoms like sensitivity to light and sounds, or smells, or infinity type. migraines can be debilitating, but tension headaches can also be very painful. the funnel tension headaches tend to involve a sense of tightness or pressure gung patients often described was sensation of pressure pushing down on their head and like wearing a or a hat that's to ties and focus from organ or the tension. headaches can also be accompanied by nausea and sensitivity to light, but they tend to be less severe than in migraines, as african owls can picked up by them in class. when a headache strikes, relaxation can help fresh air and exercise can often banish attention. headache, but exercise won't help in the middle of a migraine attack by the mcleana dog when it comes to migraines. there are 2 main
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therapeutic approaches. talking about 1st treating the migraine attacks as they're happening in english and 2nd prophylaxis, where you try to reduce the frequency and severity of migraine attacks. in terms of medication, we have an arsenal of drugs available to us. the 1st or simple traditional pain medications like aspirin and i be broken. that's not the us be real wiggle, poofing. there's also a class of medications called trip tains, which can help relieve a cluster or migraine headache, but many patients don't want to depend on medication. that's where other forms of pain relief can help. like a mustard powder, fit valve into a here in the clinic. we also use things like mustard powder for an act of migraine . it's a therapy that comes from anthropocentric medicine. and many people say it's helpful that i think would focus on at the 1st sign of a migraine, so kill feet for 10 minutes in lukewarm water,
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mixed with mustard powder. then rinse your feet to remove the oils and as n foundation. so the mustard seed is pungent and has a knit 2, it's alice sugar shorter thought it finally ground, which helps releases essential oils in had that's the pungent parts. then when the powder comes into contact with the skin head, it activates a kind of, whoops and pain response, soccer, alabama. schnapps, lights won't become a patients tell us that it feels like it's drawing the heat and pray out of their head and down towards their feet. mats austin caught from the haunted progressive muscle relaxation techniques can also help patients focus on tightening and relaxing various muscle groups in sequence that can relieve tension, which in turn helps relieve the headache knowing how and why headaches arise can also help patients learn how to cope but sometimes headaches can be
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a sign of something more serious a fairly her as a some headache symptoms could indicate a serious illness. and that could include a ruptured brain aneurism, or meningitis, which is an inflammation of the protective membranes of the brain. so that's something that a doctor needs to look at in an aneurism. the 1st symptom is usually a sudden agonizing headache, and someone with meningitis will often have a high fever off his eyes. once other conditions have been ruled out, patients can experiment with things that might help. some people find cold, useful. others warmth. busy the heat of the hair dry, for example, to relieve headaches that occurred you to tense neck muscles. with who to put, i would always encourage patients to try to figure out what helps them what relieves the pain as on headache sufferers often find very creative solutions or creative people who suffer from headaches should also stay clear of junk food. a
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daily routine with regular balanced meals can help to and during a busy day, meals are also a good time to relax and clean your head. and do you have a question on health, nutrition, fitness, or near research and therapies? then send us an email with a bit of luck. we'll discuss the answer to your question on one of our up having shut awhile back sooner. the rang a tang of the dog man. so in germany hadn't annoying problem a headache caused by eating an ice cream to quickly we humans get a to, it's often called a brain freeze or ice cream heading headaches can also be caused by coughing sneezing or even laughing or by sexual activity,
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which often gets worse with increasing arousal and weight, lifting, or exercise can cause exertion all headaches, by the way, seumas ice cream headache was over in a few minutes. and then she was back to her old self again. but some types of headache can last quite a bit longer. and really be a torment like migraines. mm. oh, yeah, no catalina's daughter has had headaches for over 10 years, which became increasingly frequent. they usually start at night. so for the foolishness often in stone, it feels like my head is lying on a rock and i say everything feels really hard. mr. graham and i'm also sensitive to lighten noise. i need quiet and drastic, and quite often i have to go and sick leave for a few days even up to a week because it's the only way i can get through it. and now serve mr. soft figo
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. eventually she had a headache almost every day. her doctor diagnosed her with migraines. miguel, as i last offer, you could say migraine is a software disorder heart. the hardware itself is fine. i found that can be disappointing for the patient. and doctor, because there's no obvious cause the imaging here can't tell you what's causing it was a has it appeared by in bit i patients fill out a headache diary as part of the diagnosis. migraines are a disorder of the brain. scientists are still studying exactly what causes them. that sneaky is mock unofficially, if we still don't know exactly what's going on during a migraine attack losses, we know it's a kind of network disorder. and at various areas of the brain play a role of, of including the brain stem, white men, indies, the cerebrum anonymous on. that's why we also know that some sort of over
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activation takes place and set neurotransmitters are released. that would normally indicate some sort of inflammatory process. so i'm just glad over activation in the brain is what lead to the actual migraine pain. but we still don't know exactly what triggers the attack and how the entire process actually works off as a steamboat. the fulsome yet to get her migraines under control yana catalina's. shortsale was 1st prescribed an antidepressant medication that can also help with my grades, but it didn't work for her. now she wants to see if botox therapy can help it's her 2nd treatment. botox is a nerve blocker, she'll be injected with tiny amounts of it under $31.00 spots on her head and neck . 4 talks foot by now, the botox is transported from the nerves into the brain ending up in the areas associated with migraines. it inhibits the release of inflammatory
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neurotransmitters that triggered the migraines greenhouse frozen. she'll be coming here for treatments every 3 months. the 1st, botox treatment already made a difference of a dish randomly. so my migraines have already got quite a bit better. i hardly need painkillers any more coach smith only when i'm on my period, which is when they tend to flare up monday. but apart from that, i don't need painkillers anymore. kind of miss me to come into mal botox therapy is a treatment not a cure. it's used only for chronic migraines and the effect last up to 3 months. it doesn't work for everyone. but for yana catalina short, so it's made a real difference. mm. with people who get only the occasional migraine can generally treat them with painkillers. as cecil santa cynic acid, known as aspirin, ibuprofen or paracetamol can all health,
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but these medications can also damage the stomach, kidneys, and liver. taking painkillers too often can even cause more headaches. these rebound headaches can become even more frequent or last longer. often people take even more medications and it becomes a vicious cycle. so you shouldn't take painkillers more than 10 times a month without seeing a doctor. a lot of research is also being done on new therapies that don't involve taking medication at all. ah, for years christina showed could only hope that she would one day be able to live without pain. now her wishes come true. thanks to these electrodes at mar books, institute for medical psychology, she received a groundbreaking form of therapy involving the transmission of an electrical stimulus to her right hand. even months after the treatment, she still is pain free. will interest on far. i'm incredibly grateful.
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i don't know what i would have done without this therapy, so i was taking painkillers, trip tains, and i got i v medication of it has come analysis for classrooms, but nothing can compare to this treatment. wished didn't approve of the sphere, the others didn't help. didn't really do anything on, but this treatment really wax nicholas as this suits him yet. mm. for years christina, showed suffered from the side effect of the pills. she took, which cost stomach inflammation. she decided to try a new treatment that didn't involve medication or its side effects, a form of electrical stimulation to relieve her migraines. it was different than anything she tried before. as it is to please turn the electrical current flows to my hand, which is painful. of the year to let the sara pay or the stimulation
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is relaxing, deeply relaxing as a tv an inch fund. the therapy was developed by medical psychologists, kaji teemer. the electrical stimulation provides a kind of training for patients who suffer from chronic pain. their bodies learn how to regulate their pain response again. the stolen horn had anchor brain stem has a small nucleus that regulates pain, hot blood pressure, blood sugar, anxiety, and stress hormones. wound in chronic pain. patience is, is what we see is that this regulatory mechanism is suppressed via feel a disaster mad at thoughts. because many of these pain patients have high blood pressure process, which means that the intensity of blood pressure in their carotid arteries doesn't change or damage. so information doesn't get transmitted to the brain stem done with the results that the brain stem doesn't understand what's happening in the body. we use this stimulus to wake up those receptors so that they start
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transmitting signals again and the brains them resumes its regulatory function, which then low as blood pressure. um, it uses pain. motzkin for the electrical stimulation therapy is a factor for headaches, but also chronic pain. and phantom pain due to spinal cord injuries and rheumatism . in m g n, a patent i remember a patient who had rheumatoid arthritis, late onset, rheumatoid arthritis, that began after she was 65 years old and arthritis dinner. and she wanted to visit her children on the void you. but when she came to us, she could only walk for 10 minutes at a stretch to was come on after this therapy, she was able to visit her children who live in another country. defeat was that she was able to fly their daughter and see her grandchildren correctly. i get goosebumps every time. i remember that it makes me so happy that she was able to do that again. bethel through them. ok. christina shult also feels like she's been
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given a new lease on life before the treatment of pain caused a major disruption. turn daily routines and activities. how do you me clean up the my migraines will often triggered by being out in the sun or by heat y'all, or odors such as garlic and onions off with the boone alcohol. no way, i go. king garnished well and it was a real burden when the weather was nice, i'd want to go out for a walk. but as soon as i got out into the sun, i'd get a migraine was getting mclean lost the hum. feel a patch entity do we have a lot of patients who no longer been able to work because of the pain after the therapy, they could start work again or even go back to their former career. i know older patients are able to enjoy their retirement more fully sleep. allison, can you have an idea of not and hard kidneys. it's hoped that other hospitals will also begin offering this therapy for chronic pain. patience like christina showed
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