Home remedies · Sleep, nerves & head
No home remedy here replaces treatment, and none is talked down. What has done good for generations does good — even if no one ever measured it. Where something is well studied, it says so. Where it is only experience, it says that too.
Screen away, a large glass of water, 20 minutes in a quiet, darkened room; a cool cloth on the forehead or neck.
Lack of fluid, screen work and sensory overload are the three most common triggers of tension and migraine headache.
Taking painkillers on more than ten to fifteen days a month can cause a headache that comes from the medicine itself.
A headache that starts like a thunderclap, that is new and different, or that comes with fever, a stiff neck, weakness or visual disturbance: assess at once.
Get seen at once: the sudden, worst headache of your life, headache with fever and a stiff neck, with weakness, speech or vision trouble. Likewise dizziness with double vision or an unsteady gait. Sleeplessness over weeks with loss of drive is something to discuss, not to endure.