If your position is not correct, whether you sit or stand, it may lead to headache, because of over strain on this part of the body. Take the following steps to avoid such a headache. If you have to sit on a chair and work for hours, change your position every 20 minutes. This will let free blood circulation. Try to sit straight. Don’t bend your body. This is especially applicable to those who sit and work in front of computers. If you are in empty stomach from morning, your head begins to ache by noon. When you are hungry, your blood sugar will come down. You will get headaches then, when you sleep, don’t cover your head also. You need fresh air. If you cover your head, you may not get sufficient quantity of oxygen, so also, hot sun too will cause headache. Heat empties the fluid around your brain, leading to headache, so avoid going in the hot sun from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. if it becomes inevitable, wear a cap and drink plenty of water or cool drinks.
Take a deep breath and relax. Close the two fists tightly, take a deep breath. Keep the air inside for some time. Release the air (breathe out) slowly. By this time you will feel very light. Then breathe through the mouth. The moment tension headache begins; walk briskly even if it is inside your house. Walking releases natural curing chemicals (Endorphins). They will cure you of your headache. Anyway tension will come down. In some, walking may increase the headache. They should not turn to walking if feel severe headache.
If there is a blood clot somewhere in the arteries taking blood to the head- in course of time, this clot, called Thrombus, becomes bigger and closes the blood vessels completely. If this clot is detected early, doctors administer Anti- Clot Forming Agents and see that the blood passage is not completely closed. Cerebral Embolism: If the clot or something else- called Emulous- being pushed from some other part, sticks inside the artery taking blood to the brain and obstructs the blood flow, it is Cerebral Embolism. Cerebral Haemorrhage: If any vessel carrying blood to the brain splits, the blood does not reach the brain but leaks out. If any pressure is exerted on the veins taking blood to the brain due to growth of tumor, the vein gets closed and the flow of blood stops.
With no oxygen, the head becomes suffocated and the valuable cells there die, or become seriously damaged. All this happens in 4 or 5 minutes. It means that if the supply of blood to the head is stopped, for 4 or 5 minutes, the result is the Stroke. If the damaged brain cells are those that stimulate work in the left hand, the left hand is paralyzed. If these cells control the memory power, there will be loss of memory; and if most of these cells die, the person himself will die. The sudden stopping of blood flow does not take place in healthy arteries. It happens in the arteries that have been damaged for years.
Doctors call this Cerebral Emergency. Cerebral means head. Emergency means sudden. If there is a sudden interruption in the flowing of blood (to the head) in the arteries inside the neck, it is called Stroke. This obstruction to the flow of blood may be because of the clotting of blood somewhere in the artery or because of the bursting of the artery. This blood, flowing through the artery, supplies life- giving oxygen to the head. The moment the supply of blood is stopped, supply of oxygen too will be stopped.
It happens in a fraction of a second and life takes a new turn. You may lose the power of speech or power of thinking or your hand or leg may get paralyzed. That is Stroke. Technically it is called Cerebra Vascular Accident; also Apoplectic Stroke. In America, Stroke occupies the third place after heart diseases and cancer, in killing people. It is estimated that about half a million people suffer from Stroke every year in America. Of those who survive, many suffer from one defect or other, like loss of speech or eye sight, loss of memory, losing the capacity to walk or one side of the body becoming paralyzed.
These protein coated packages float in the blood, carrying cholesterol. Again Lipo proteins are of two kinds: High Density Lipo proteins (HDL) and Low Density Lipo Proteins(LDL). High Density Lipo Proteins (HDL) are useful in eliminating the cholesterol in our blood. These HDL proteins carry the cholesterol remaining in the blood to the liver. The liver sees that it is removed from the body. Hence, the more you have HDL in your blood, the farther you will be from heart diseases.
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