What causes a pregnant woman often feels a headache in pregnancy?
Headache can be caused by various factors, among others caused by hormonal changes, tired, tense, low blood sugar levels, runny nose or nasal congestion, or some combination of these factors.
Common headache occurs during pregnancy. If pre-pregnancy have often experienced headache, headache during pregnancy can grow more severe.
TIPS to overcome headache:
• frequent head pain can be a sign that women are too many activities. Try to reduce and limit your normal activities carried out before you get pregnant and see if this action will reduce the headache.
• If you experience headache while working at the office, maybe it's because the air quality in your place of work. Try to get some fresh air once every 2 hours to walk briefly around the workplace. Moving the body can make sense of comfort and fresh air can clear and refresh the head. Substances that can trigger allergies such as dust and moss can also cause headache.
• Provision of a cold compress on the head also can relieve the headache caused by tension and fatigue. Kompreslah the forehead, neck and close your eyes and take a deep breath.
• Close your eyes and rest in dark places can help reduce the headache.
• Ask your husband or family to slowly massage the neck, neck and shoulders. Traditional massage can help reduce your stress, makes you relax so that the head pain can be reduced. If you are not pregnant used to do acupuncture on the area between your thumb and index finger to relieve headache, do not do that very often when you are pregnant because this point can also stimulate labor.
• Avoid foods that can cause headache such as chocolate, cheese, red wine and foods containing refined sugar.
• Eat more protein, because protein is a substance-forming chemicals in the brain and brain chemistry balanced.
