Unusual headache hacks to help relieve the pain – from frozen veg to hot mustard powder
dailystar.co.ukheadache can negatively affect your day-to-day life – but it's a very common condition that most people will experience during their lives.
The main symptom of a headache is a pain in your head or face.This can be throbbing, constant, sharp or dull.This can be caused by a multitude of reasons – including not enough food, dehydration, stress or bad sleeping positions from the night before.Headaches can be treated with medication or stress management – but there are a few unconventional ways of easing the pain which don’t require medicines.While there are plenty of treatments to reduce headaches, including over-the-counter ibuprofen or prescription headache medications, they don’t always eliminate the symptoms.And tempting though it may be, the solution isn’t to take more than the recommended dosage.In fact, many tricks can help reduce your headache pain without you ever reaching for a pill.One unusual way to get rid of your headache quickly involves soaking your feet in hot water.By drawing blood to your feet, the hot-water footbath will ease pressure on the blood vessels in your head.For a really bad headache, add a bit of hot mustard powder to the water.Another unusual method involves putting a couple of ice cubes in a washcloth or using a bag of frozen vegetables.Cold constricts blood vessels, and when they shrink, they stop pressing on sensitive nerves.Since headache pain sometimes originates in nerves in back of your neck, try moving the compress to the muscles at the base of your skull for instant relief.Pressing on certain points of your body could help relieve headaches.
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