BPS1101 -Topic 3 Headaches
Questions Fully Solved.
cephalgia - Answer headaches 90% population
Historical cause to headaches - Answer Once believed headaches caused by demons. Lose
the demon to lose the headache; Stick head in oven to make the demons escape in your head.
Metallic tractor - Answer pulls out the pain: Metal needles that are heated and applied to
your ear to suck out the pain. Q-Ray "pulls out the pain" - magic
Surgical cures - Answer • Cut into head and use trepanation: Cutting a hole in your skull,
based on throbbing, they had a feeling the skull was too tight, so by having a hole the pressure
is released. The hole lasts a lifetime. 30% chance of surviving this.
Modern practitioners of trepanation; Peter Halvorson hole in the head gang. Amanda Fielding
one of the believers and made a movie of cutting a hole in her head.
Pain - Answer Brain does not feel pain; Pain in thin tissue surrounding skull
Types of headaches - Answer ¥ 12 types of headache and 60 sub-types
¥ Headaches grouped into 2 classes: Muscular/Vascular
Vascular: toxic, migraine, cluster
Muscular headache - Answer •This is the result of the contraction of the muscles, which
surround your skull. When they contract, they squish the tissue around your skull and produce
pain.
•Muscular headache caused by stress; EXAMS!
•Treat muscular headache with a pain reliever: ASA, acetaminophen, ibuprofen, Naproxen.
Vascular headache - Answer ¥ Toxic headache caused by poison: You ingest something it
causes a headache.
¥ Pain is caused by vasodilation (diameter of blood vessels get larger)
¥ Most common type of toxic headache: Hangover!
Metabolism of alcohol - Answer • Depends on the amount of alcohol you consume.
• Ethyl Alcohol is converted into acetic acid - non toxic.
Questions Fully Solved.
cephalgia - Answer headaches 90% population
Historical cause to headaches - Answer Once believed headaches caused by demons. Lose
the demon to lose the headache; Stick head in oven to make the demons escape in your head.
Metallic tractor - Answer pulls out the pain: Metal needles that are heated and applied to
your ear to suck out the pain. Q-Ray "pulls out the pain" - magic
Surgical cures - Answer • Cut into head and use trepanation: Cutting a hole in your skull,
based on throbbing, they had a feeling the skull was too tight, so by having a hole the pressure
is released. The hole lasts a lifetime. 30% chance of surviving this.
Modern practitioners of trepanation; Peter Halvorson hole in the head gang. Amanda Fielding
one of the believers and made a movie of cutting a hole in her head.
Pain - Answer Brain does not feel pain; Pain in thin tissue surrounding skull
Types of headaches - Answer ¥ 12 types of headache and 60 sub-types
¥ Headaches grouped into 2 classes: Muscular/Vascular
Vascular: toxic, migraine, cluster
Muscular headache - Answer •This is the result of the contraction of the muscles, which
surround your skull. When they contract, they squish the tissue around your skull and produce
pain.
•Muscular headache caused by stress; EXAMS!
•Treat muscular headache with a pain reliever: ASA, acetaminophen, ibuprofen, Naproxen.
Vascular headache - Answer ¥ Toxic headache caused by poison: You ingest something it
causes a headache.
¥ Pain is caused by vasodilation (diameter of blood vessels get larger)
¥ Most common type of toxic headache: Hangover!
Metabolism of alcohol - Answer • Depends on the amount of alcohol you consume.
• Ethyl Alcohol is converted into acetic acid - non toxic.
