Medical Causes for Headaches

Video Transcript

"Hello. My name is Dr. Susan Jewell and on behalf of Expert Village today, I am going to talk to you about how to recognize and how to treat the pain from headaches. Now in this clip we're going to talk about one of the causes of headaches and that is from neurological etiology or cause or from certain medical conditions. Now if you look at the board, I've broken it down to some of the causes that could cause your headaches. Now neurological, headaches can be caused by, for example you have a hematoma or a bleed in the head. There's two different types, subdural and epidural hematoma. Brain hemorrhaging, from strokes or some kind of embolism or clot that lodges in one of the major vessels that supplies the brain. So you can, obviously these are very sudden onset and you're going to have the pain, it's going to come on very suddenly and very intense, which obviously is an emergency situation and something that you definitely must seek medical emergency help immediately. Certain other neurological conditions that causes headaches could be people with brain tumors or brain cancers. These are usually accompanied by very strong associated signs and symptoms like blurred vision, nausea, vomiting, and these symptoms would present itself over a long period of time. So the headaches will accompany these symptoms, so definitely always get a regular checkup, especially if you have a history, a family history, of brain tumors and cancers because a lot of these conditions are hereditary and has a strong genetic component. Seizers and epilepsy, of course, would always accompany headaches but these will also have other associated signs and symptoms along with it, similar to brain tumors and cancers. Certain medical illnesses, of course, will come with pain of headaches and the most common is fevers. Colds and flu?s would always present with headaches, but then of course you're going to get the other symptoms of nasal congestion, teary eyed, runny nose and coughing, so on so forth. And drugs and medication, either over the counter or prescribed medication, sometimes can induce headaches that come along with taking these drugs. So these are the many different types of neurological/medical conditions that could present with headaches along with other signs and symptoms that you should recognize. But certainly for sure that you should always seek medical help and a consult to rule out or rule in certain conditions to help you recognize and therefore help you manage the pain of headaches."