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El headache and eyes It is a very frequent symptom and, in most cases, it is a temporary situation and without much importance. However, the headache and eyes can become a recurrent discomfort, when this occurs it is important to visit the ophthalmologist to evaluate our visual system and discard any that we are suffering from some refractive defect

En Área Oftalmológica Avanzada We explain below the most frequent causes of headache and eye pain.

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How is the headache related to the eyes?

One of the most common pain is headaches related to the eyes. This symptom is very common in people who pass many hours in front of the computer, who suffer from high levels of Stress or who carry out intensive days of study or reading. 

There is a close relationship between headache and eyes. Many headaches, such as migraine, affect the visual system, such as sparkles and colors in vision or the formation of the aura in the campor visual. In turn, vision problems such as myopia, farsightedness and astigmatism, can cause headaches. 

Causes

Headaches can be caused by various causes, here are the most common: 

  • Tension headache: This is one of the most frequent headaches and is caused by excess tension in the neck and the base of the head. This discomfort is caused by excessive fatigue and poor body posture. 
  • MigraineThis pain is much stronger and occurs when the blood vessels in the head dilate. Migraine sufferers may have visual symptoms before the headache appears. 
  • Refractive defects: the myopia, farsightedness and astigmatism, especially when they have not been diagnosed or are poorly corrected, they can cause headaches and eyes. Other symptoms of these defects can be blurred vision, photophobia y itchy eyes
  • Cluster headache: it is a very bad headache that affects only one side of the head and may be accompanied by excessive tearing, nasal congestion, abnormal contraction of the pupil y droopy eyelids
  • Other causes: sinusitis, squint y visual fatigue caused by straining your eyes for many hours while reading or using the computer. 

Symptom

The symptoms that accompany the headache and eye pain can vary depending on the cause of the discomfort. The most common are: 

Transmission

In order to determine the ideal treatment for headache and eye pain, it is important to know the cause of this symptom. The ideal is visit the ophthalmologist when the pain is recurrent and accompanied by blurred vision at a certain distance. 

Refractive defects can be corrected through the use of glasses or contact lenses and definitively through the laser refractive surgery. Visiting the ophthalmologist once a year is very important to check that our visual system is working in correct conditions, most people with myopia, astigmatism or hyperopia are unaware that they have a vision defect.

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Headache and eyes
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Headache and eyes
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This symptom is very common in people who spend many hours in front of the computer, who suffer from stress or who do intensive days of study and reading.
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Área Oftalmológica Avanzada
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Headache, Migraine
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