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About Cluster Headache


Cluster headache is a type of vascular pain, but it is rare (affecting approximately 1% of the population, 80% of whom are men). It raises a series of attacks (clusters), several times a day for the happy days, or even weeks,  and yes there is a period of months and years. OVA episode of 15 minutes before the hour, with an acute pain that some people even commit suicide because of this brand of headache.

The precise biological mechanism for this type of pain the least studied. But there is a general view that this phenomenon is vascular and that the hormonal imbalance caused by periodic resentment hypothalamus may play a key role.

The pain of cluster can be expanded sleeping artery (vessel leading from the heart to the brain through the neck and is the main source of blood marrow) and irritation of nerves located behind the eyes, caused by increased local high arteries. Most experts believe that is why a cluster headache is characterized by feelings of pain in the eyes.
First the pain strikes the ear, and then starts permeating acute pain behind the eyes. The eyes turn red and teary,  nasal cavity, a tide of blood to the face and sweating. Pain movingly described one of the patients, who said that he had the feeling as if he had stabbed in the eye and managed to get it to the brain. Others thought that their skin is falling apart from the face and sprayed with acid wounds.
 
The pain usually affects only one side of the face, but can switch to another in subsequent attacks, in which people ramrod sorts around the room, loudly shaft, and sometimes struggling against a wall to distract attention from its extensive headache. Periods of pain may be seasonal in nature, spring and autumn -- the most dangerous time of year. Some elderly -- including smoking and alcohol consumption -- can increase the risk of a cluster, but this type of headache is not hereditary in nature and does not depend on the educational environment.
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