Headaches are more common than diabetes and asthma. Headache is not difficult to diagnose. Still it is the most undertreated condition. This leads to great mystery. 50% of migraine sufferers can’t work during the attacks.

How do you classify headaches?

1 PRIMARY HEADACHE:

Where there s no obvious cause of headache eg migraine , tension type headache 90% of headaches are of this type.

2 SECONDARY HEADACHE:

Where there is obvious cause of headache eg brain tumour, meningitis ,venous sinus thrombosis, 10% headaches are of this type.