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HOW TO BY SHELLEY FLANNERY
HOW TO
STOP A HEADACHE
Five steps to get your head back in the game
Headaches always seem to strike at the worst possible moments-
when you had a tough day at work, you're running late to pick up
the kids and you need to get dinner on the table. They're like the
dried icing on a bad cake that is your day. And almost all of us get them.
Nearly 90 percent of Americans get headaches from time to time, says
Angela Golden, a family nurse practitioner and the immediate past president of
the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. "The good news is that the
vast majority are nothing to worry about."
Of course, that doesn't make you feel any better when your head is pounding.
But these five steps can.
STEP 1:
Take meds.
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Dehydration is a common
cause of headaches. And while
drinking a glass of water won't
relieve your current headache, it will help shorten its life
span and stop other effects of
dehydration, such as dizziness
and constipation.
"It's not while you have your
headache that you should
start drinking water,"
Golden says.
"You should
be drinking
it routinely."
Apply a cool
compress.
During a headache, blood
vessels in your head dilate.
Applying a cool compress to
your forehead can help them
contract, and therefore stop
the throbbing.
There's also something to be
said for applying heat.
"A hot compress on the neck
and a cold compress on the
forehead can do wonders,"
Golden says. "Something else
to try is putting your feet in
warm water, which redistributes blood from the head and
stops the headache."
PHOTOS BY THINKSTOCK
This is the first step, because
medication takes about 30 minutes to start working.
"Start medication early,
before the headache gets too
bad," says Jennifer L. Frost,
MD, the medical director of the
Health of the Public and Science
division for the American
Academy of Family Physicians.
"Try acetaminophen or ibuprofen. You can even take them
together [while noting the dosages] for really bad headaches."
But don't rely too heavily on
painkillers, Golden says. "Some
people actually get headaches
from the overuse of certain
medications, particularly those
that contain caffeine."
STEP 2:
Drink water.
STEP 3:
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