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Help doctors! what're vascular and tension" headaches"?

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Dr. Krishna Kumar answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Hedaches: Vascular headache: is due to the dilation of the arteries of the brain. The pain is often described as throbbing or pounding and is often accompanied by nausea and/or vomiting. The most common vascular headache are the migraine and cluster headache. Tension headache: is generally caused by involuntary contractions of the muscles of the scalp, jaws, face, may be due to fatigue and stress.

Answered 4/9/2016

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