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Everyone, on occasion, have suffered from headache. However, very little is known about what really is and how we should treat it. The causes can be diverse, and their intensity. Hence, it is so important to know something more about headaches.
Headache is the medical name given the different types of headaches, which are estimated to cause very frequent consultation, and that 90% of people suffered from this discomfort throughout his life.
There are many classifications of headaches, but one of the most useful is:
Primary headaches: they constitute in itself a disease and its mechanism of origin is not well understood.
They are usually benign. Among these are tension-type headache (most common), migraine or migraine and some neuralgias.
Secondary headaches: a disease associated with identifiable and it is a symptom of brain tumors, hemorrhages, hematomas, meningitis, temporal arteritis, and so on.
Only 2% of headaches are secondary and of these some are caused by a serious disease that requires urgent diagnosis and treatment because of its implications and prognosis.