Which department should I go to if I often have headaches

We know that there are many reasons for frequent headaches, such as migraine, paroxysmal hemiplegia, non-organic disease headache, and craniocerebral trauma headache, etc. Therefore, different headaches may require different departments to be visited. Generally speaking, the more common ones are neurology department, cerebrovascular department, etc. Go to the corresponding department, conduct a good examination, and carry out symptomatic treatment. Let’s take a look at this aspect.

What department should I go to if I often have headaches?

There are many types of headaches, which can be divided into migraine, tension-type headache, cluster headache and chronic paroxysmal hemiplegia, headache caused by non-organic lesions, headache caused by head trauma, vascular disease headache, headache caused by vascular intracranial disease, headache caused by the application of other objects and machinery, headache caused by non-cranial infection, headache caused by metabolic diseases, headache or facial pain caused by diseases of the skull, neck, eyes, ears, nose, paranasal sinuses, teeth, oral cavity, face or other structures of the head, cranial neuralgia, neuralgia afferent headache and cervicogenic headache, etc. Depending on which type of symptoms you have, most people go to the neurology department or cerebrovascular department.

What tests should be done for headaches:

1. First of all, we should focus on understanding the characteristics of the headache itself: such as the cause, course, time of occurrence, location, nature, degree, and reasons for aggravation and relief of the headache, etc. This can provide certain clues to the cause or diagnostic direction. For example, superficial, sharp, stabbing pain is mostly caused by cranial neuralgia, throbbing pain or swelling pain on one side is caused by vascular pain, and tightness and dull pain in the occipital area, forehead, etc. are caused by muscle contraction headache. Among them, it is particularly important to find out whether the headache is paroxysmal (with completely painless intervals) or persistent, because once it is confirmed to be an paroxysmal headache, if the cause of the attack is also understood at the same time, the scope of exploring the cause can be greatly narrowed and the direction of diagnosis can be found as soon as possible. like:

① Paroxysmal headaches induced by changes in head or body position: may include intracranial hypotension syndrome, transient ischemic attack, cervical migraine, hypotension, intracranial tumors, especially tumors in the ventricular system, etc.

② Those who have headaches in the morning or at night may have hypertension, early increased intracranial pressure, heart failure, frontal sinusitis, epilepsy, etc.

③Those related to emotions, fatigue, etc. or whose causes are unknown.

④ A short-term attack of sharp pain after catching a cold or being injured: mostly neuralgia.