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Acute or chronic headaches?

This is quite a complicated question for physicians whether a headache is chronic or acute. If one is having a headache (probably as a baby) for the very first time then it’s obviously an acute headache, because there is no history attached to it. Most of us throughout our life suffer from occasional headaches and they are generally seen as individual acute episodes (you will also find that doctors talk of 'episodic' versus 'chronic' headaches and migraines). Likewise, if an individual has an eczema outburst once a decade we would also consider this as an acute. Therefore, the choric/acute distinction is actually about the occurrence frequency of something. Our difficulties seem to arise when we attempt to create relationship between chronic and acute headaches, or other conditions indeed, because it’s very tough to do so. All of us probably know how much the people debate about age of the consent, for example. In UK, you’re an adult when you reach at your 18. However, you are considered to be capable in making your own decision in other matters at 16, and you’re allowed to drive a car after reaching 17. In other states, the permission allowed for same ages are different. Moreover, there always exist the people who mature at the age of 15 than those who are at 18.

Likewise, in case of headaches, you’ll find that if once doctor calls a case to be acute episodes series, another will consider the same to be a chronic one. It is the International Headache Society from where the general guidelines of headaches definition arrive from. According to them, a headache is said to be of chronic nature if it occurs for more than 15 days every month for 6 months, at least. And this is where, our problem actually appears from. If a headache takes place only for 14 days every month for 6 months, it doesn’t meet the given criterion. Although such guidelines are useful, they don’t always provide coverage to the entire possibility, so the doctor correctly has room for the diplomacy and judgment. Actually, there isn’t any equivalent time specification for diagnosis of the chronic migraines according to The International Headache Society. Generally, the people with migraines tend to acquire them in a regular basis over a long interval of time, and so, almost everybody else is considered as chronic migraine sufferers.

Headachesguru.com 2009