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Don't
overdo the pain pills
Although an occasional dose of over the counter analgesic may
help alleviate your headache for a few hours. taking these drugs
too often may actually worsen the pain, according to Sabiha
Ali, M.D., a neurologist at the Houston Headache Clinic in Texas.
"These drugs are okay in limited quantities," she says,
"but if you need to take more than two doses a day, you should
see a doctor."
Lie
Down
Lying down
and closing your eyes for an half an hour or more may be the
best treatments for a bad headache.
For some type of headaches,such as migraines, sleep is only
the thing that seems to interrupt the pain cycle.
The most important thing is to recognize that the faster the
patient with a severe headache stops what they're doing and
goes to bed and rests, the faster the headaches will go away.
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