Elderly headache, in addition to clear fever, spread disease to neighboring organs outside the brain caused by headache, if suddenly have a more severe headache, you should consider whether any of the following disorders.
■ hypertensive emergency
Radical nature of this disease include hypertension, hypertensive crisis and hypertensive encephalopathy. Three different, but intrinsically linked. High blood pressure headache is relatively rare in peacetime, there are only faint pain mixed, dull it. However, there is mutation of the three accident and emergency, then obviously the headache, often accompanied by dizziness, tinnitus, nausea, vomiting, palpitations, vertigo, limb weakness or numbness, mental disorders. At this point headache unbearable heaviness has burst, all headaches, blood pressure surging, even as a precursor of stroke.
■ brain tumor
When the old people suffering from brain tumors, because of early tumor cells is small, large intracranial compartment, mass effect is not obvious, many do not cause headaches. However, when the tumor from the quantitative to qualitative changes can be oppressed brain, blockage of cerebrospinal fluid pathway Erzhi cerebral edema, increased intracranial pressure or cranial nerve damage, at this time would be a sudden increase or sudden headache pain the whole head, both visual blurring, ataxia, seizures, vomiting, paralysis, mental disorders. Headache was the first time, and that in order to gradually increase the pain, all characterized by head pain.
■ chronic hematoma
Chronic subdural hematoma that great. Although this disease is more mild head injury patients, but older people often forget this moment and through the history of trauma, until 1 or 2 months or longer, headache, Touzhang, contralateral limb are not working, convulsions and other symptoms, it is unclear how the matter in the end.
■ aneurysm
This tumor mostly congenital, and usually can be hidden deep in the brain, skull base, if not bleeding, not headache, do not damage nerves. If the bleeding, the condition nosedive, first of all a sudden there is intense headache, nausea, vomiting, Touzhang earth shattering, followed by coma and convulsions. 1 to 2 in the future if a clear, headache still, at this time and more visible a ptosis, eye movements ineffective, decreased vision or blindness.
