What causes scalp pain after childbirth?

After childbirth, it takes a long period of confinement to recover your physical condition, because women are relatively weak right after giving birth. If you are not careful, it will cause some clinical symptoms, especially scalp pain. This pain will also affect your brain and cause pain. You must make appropriate treatment according to your own condition to prevent the situation from worsening.

1. Disease situation

Acute onset with fever is often caused by infectious diseases. Acute headache that persists without abating and is accompanied by varying degrees of impaired consciousness without fever suggests intracranial vascular disease (such as subarachnoid hemorrhage). Long-term recurrent or throbbing headaches are mostly vascular headaches (such as migraine) or neurosis. Chronic progressive headaches accompanied by symptoms of increased intracranial pressure (such as vomiting, bradycardia, and papilledema) should be noted as indicating intracranial space-occupying lesions. Chronic headaches in young and middle-aged people, but without increased intracranial pressure, often occur due to anxiety and emotional tension, and are mostly muscle contraction headaches (or tension headaches).

2. Headache location

Knowing whether the headache is unilateral, bilateral, frontal or occipital, localized or diffuse, intracranial or extracranial is of great value in diagnosing the cause. For example, migraine and cluster headaches often occur on one side. The headache caused by intracranial lesions is often deep and diffuse. The location of the headache caused by deep intracranial lesions is not necessarily consistent with the location of the lesion, but the pain often radiates to the same side as the lesion. Headaches caused by high blood pressure often occur in the forehead or the entire head. Headache caused by systemic or intracranial infectious diseases is mostly pain in the whole head. Subarachnoid hemorrhage or cerebrospinal meningitis may cause neck pain in addition to headache. Ocular headaches are superficial and localized to the orbit, forehead, or temporal areas. Pain caused by rhinitis or odontitis is also usually superficial.

3. The degree and nature of headache

The degree of headache is generally divided into three types: mild, moderate and severe, but there is no parallel relationship between the severity of the disease. The pain of trigeminal neuralgia, migraine and meningeal irritation is the most severe. The pain from a brain tumor is usually moderate or mild. Sometimes neurological headaches are also quite severe. Headaches caused by hypertensive, vascular and febrile diseases are often pulsating. Neuralgia is often electric shock-like or tingling, while muscle contraction headaches are often heavy pressure, tightness, or clamp-like pain.

4. The time and duration of headache

Some headaches may occur at specific times. For example, intracranial space-occupying lesions often worsen in the early morning. Sinusitis headaches also often occur in the early morning or morning. Cluster headaches often occur at night. Migraines in women are often related to the menstrual period. Headaches caused by brain tumors are usually persistent and may have remission periods of varying lengths.

5. Factors that aggravate or relieve headaches: Coughing, sneezing, shaking head, and bending over can aggravate intracranial hypertension headaches, vascular headaches, intracranial infection headaches, and brain tumor headaches. Cluster headaches are relieved by standing upright. Headaches caused by acute inflammation of the cervical muscles may be aggravated by neck movements; headaches caused by chronic or occupational cervical muscle spasms may be gradually relieved by moving and massaging the cervical muscles. Migraine headaches can be relieved by taking ergotamine.