Chinese brain health day series of popular science -those things for headaches and brain tumors

In daily life, headaches are very common symptoms. Hypertension, emotional excitement, poor rest and cerebrovascular disease and even colds may cause headache symptoms. Among the many diseases that cause headaches, the most hidden and most dangerous is brain tumor. Many patients with brain tumors have not paid enough attention to the symptoms of headache caused by the tumors when the tumor is relatively small and the condition is not serious. In the end Life causes threat.

With the continuous advancement of industrialization and urbanization, and the aging population aging gradually intensify, the burden of brain tumor in my country is increasing. Tumor that violates nearby areas. The pathogenesis of brain tumors has not yet been fully clear. Electromagnetic radiation, nervous system carcinogens, allergic diseases, and virus infections are potential pathogenic factors.

Clinical case

Ms. Liu, 38 years old, has a physical examination every year. There are basically no major problems in the inspection. In the past 3 months, there is no obvious cause of headache. It lasts for 5-10 minutes. A spray vomiting appeared on the road, and finally found a brain tumor.

54%of patients with brain tumors will have headaches. What is the difference between it and ordinary headache?

First, early: The headache of patients with brain tumors is typical to worsen in the morning, and often wake up in the sleep.

Second, short: due to individual differences, it lasts for several minutes to a few hours.

Third, pain: In the early days, there were often intermittent attacks. Because brain tumors were mostly deep in the cranial cavity, the headache caused was mostly dull pain, accounting for about 70%, and about 25%was jumping pain. Some headaches were located on both sides. "Sometimes it is accompanied by pain in the or closer, and some rear pillow pain and discomfort can be mistakenly believed that the neck muscle strain. Headache can increase due to cough, force, or body leaning forward (the head is in a drooping position).

When brain tumors continue to increase, cause compression to the corresponding functional area of ​​the brain tissue, patients with headache will gradually increase, and the pain will become more frequent in the later period, and it is even difficult to relieve itself, accompanied by nausea and spray vomiting. Headache, nausea, and vomiting caused by brain tumors have nothing to do with their own feeding, which can occur at any time period, and symptoms can be relieved slightly after vomiting.

Fourth, vomiting: Data show that 77%of patients with brain tumor patients are similar to tense headaches. 9%of the headaches of patients with brain tumor are similar to migraine. Only 8%of patients are manifested as "typical" brain tumor headaches. At present, the preferred method of clinical diagnosis of brain tumors is the brain CT and nuclear magnetic resonance. Through accurate brain scanning, the growth site, size, and range of the tumor can be determined, and the nature can be preliminarily determined.

In short, early detection of brain tumors is very important. Pay more attention to the early alarm signals of brain tumors. If you have headache symptoms in life, you must pay attention to it, such as observing whether the symptoms of headache appear frequently, whether the transition of time is aggravated. The trend and other symptoms such as nausea and vomiting are also accompanied by nausea and vomiting in the process of headaches. They should go to a regular hospital as soon as possible to strive for early discover, early diagnosis, and early treatment.

(Author: Wang Rui, neurosurgery of Hunan Cancer Hospital)

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