Headaches during pregnancy

You should go through somehow a headache appearing during pregnancy though in certain degree you can prevent it. You can go to a medical office with the request for first aid or treat the headache house means. The best way of prevention and headache treatment is elimination of the reason of its occurrence.

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Headaches during pregnancy grow out of hormonal changes (which are responsible for increase, frequency and pressure of a headache), result of weariness, pressure, feeling of hunger, mental and emotional stress. Recommendations which will help you to overcome a headache are more low given or to prevent it:

Relax. Pregnancy is the period of the big anxiety, from here and bothering headaches. Some women are helped in this case by suggestion and yoga. You should get acquainted with a course and read the book on a theme of weakening exercises.

Certainly, weakening exercises are not intended for everyone, some women feel the strengthened pressure instead of simplification. For them the best way to liquidate pressure and a headache is position in a condition laying, for 10-15 minutes, in a dark dry premise, conveniently having settled down on a sofa or having lifted feet on a table. Get acquainted also with the instructions (recommendations) liquidating stress.

Have much a rest. Pregnancy is the period when the woman feels the big weariness, especially in first and last trimester, and in a case, when at the woman heavy work - within all nine months. The dream can be broken, when You will start to feel movement of the child. You have got tired, you are overcome by thoughts on how you will consult with all affairs after sorts, and all it increases stress. Try to have a rest often, both in the afternoon, and at night. But do not sleep it is too much, as the excessive dream too causes a headache.

The regular use of food. Care of regularly to accept food. Hunger can cause a headache also.

Try to be quiet and rejoice. If you are sensitive to noise, try to be far away from it. Avoid loud music, noisy restaurants, crowd. Houses make more silently phone call, reduce a sound of the TV and radio.

Airing. A room in which too warmly, full of the cigarette smoke, not aired, causes a headache, therefore open doors, avoid a small stuffy room. In those places where it is most stuffy, put the fan.

Apply cold and hot compresses. To facilitate headaches, apply four times a day cold and hot compresses on those places which are ill, during from 30 seconds till 10 minutes. At a compressing pain try to put ice on a nape, take 20 minutes, and also close eyes and relax.

Straighten. Long reading with the inclined head over the book and the inclined pose over the sewing machine can be the headache reason. Pay to this attention.

If you test a constant and coming back headache which grows out of temperature with infringement of sight accompanying it, hypostases of hands and persons at once address to the doctor.

Many women during pregnancy test frequent migraines, others assert, that they at them are more rare, than before. The reason why the migraine comes back to one, and at others happens only time - is unknown.

Migraine

The migraine is a special kind of a headache. Its occurrence is connected with spasms and narrowing of blood vessels of the head appearing after their unexpected expansion. It influences a current of blood and causes a pain and other phenomena. The phenomena various at everyone, but usually to a migraine the weariness contributes. After weariness there is a vomiting, a diarrhoeia, nervous excitation, nervous reaction to light. After the lapse of time (from a minute about one hour) from the first caution of a migraine, there is the intensive and pulsing headache localised on the one hand and extending on other party. Some feel a pain in shoulders or in all half of body, dizziness, a ring in ears, cough, eyes are poured by blood and the person becomes very irritable.

If in the past You tested migraines try to avoid them during pregnancy and if you feel its approach try to avoid stress, chocolate, cheese, coffee, red wine. Always try to define signs of a coming nearer migraine, and to aspire to warn her, the whole attack was not showed yet. Some are helped, for example, by washing by cold water of the person. Others prefer to lay in a dark room within 2-3 hours, blindly, listening to music, not reading, and not including the TV.

Very much discussion of a theme of a migraine with the doctor can help. If you feel the phenomena reminding a migraine, call at once to the doctor. These phenomena can mean and not a migraine, but serious complications during pregnancy. Contact the doctor if the migraine does not recede, proceeding during several hours, repeating often, or will be a consequence of temperature, infringements of sight, face edemas and hands.