Monday, February 24, 2020

Here is why you get that horrible headache after crying

Do you know the reason?

Crying is a natural phenomenon. People often cry after watching a sad movie or while dealing with an overwhelming situation at home or work. It is a natural way of letting your emotions out. But sometimes shedding those tears can lead to several post-cry symptoms like puffy eyes, runny nose, red face, and worst of all, a nasty headache. The throbbing pain in the head can be difficult to deal with and can make the entire situation worse. But have you ever wondered why your head hurts so badly after crying hard?

The connection between crying and headache

Those nasty headaches after crying are quite common and everyone must have experienced it once in a lifetime. As per scientists, it might be triggered due to stress and anxiety, caused due to intense emotions. The emotional-buildup causes the body to release hormones like cortisol, which stimulate neurotransmitters in the brain, causing physical reactions such as crying, headaches, and runny noses. However, we only experience pain when we shed tears due to negative emotions.

It has been noticed that when we cry after some positive event like winning a game, we do not have to deal with this post-cry symptom.

As per researches, when people cry after chopping onions or when they are happy, they do not experience any kind of pain.

Types of headache
Crying can trigger different kinds of headaches and the three most common ones are:
Tension headaches: Tension headache is most common of all. It happens when the muscles in the head stretch and tightens. It can also cause pain and discomfort in the neck and shoulders.
Migraine headaches: Migraine headache is different from other types of headaches. In this, a person experiences intense and throbbing pain only on any one side of the head. It is often accompanied by other symptoms like nausea, vomiting and light and sound sensitivity. You can get migraine pain only if you are prone to it.
Sinus headaches: Our eyes, nose, ears, and throat are all connected internally. So, crying for long can also affect our sinuses as our ducts drain into sinus passages. When the tears and mucus build-up, it puts pressure on the forehead, causing a headache. 

Treatments

Headaches are generally mild and go away on its own after a while. But if you are not able to handle it here are somethings you can try for relief.
-Rest for a while in a calm ad dark place.
-Apply heat or cold pack to your neck or eyes
-Drink Ginger tea
-Drink lots of water
-Take some over-the-counter medicines
-Eat some magnesium-rich food

This is only for your information, kindly take the advice of your doctor for medicines, exercises and so on.     

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