August warm days and rainy evenings brings headaches
Stress, erratic sleep and other lifestyle problems also cause headaches
By : aishwarya v.p.
Update: 2014-08-17 05:58 GMT
Chennai: There has been a 20-30 per cent increase in instances of people suffering from headache: The August weather warm days and rainy evenings, being a reason for this. General physicians said such headaches were due to sudden fluctuations in the weather, along with extreme conditions.
Dr Baraneedharan, general physician, Global Hospitals, said, “The body finds it difficult to get accustomed to the sudden climate change. If a person exits an air-conditioned room to go into the heat or enters an air-conditioned room after being in the hot sun, he may tend to get a headache.”
Long exposure to the sun can also lead to sunstroke, while a person getting drenched and not drying himself properly could be vulnerable to bacterial and viral infections. This, too, leads to headache, coupled with viral fever, or what’s called allergic rhinitis. Though headache is self-limiting, viral fever should be checked, or it may lead to respiratory infections, Dr Baraneedharan pointed out.
Headache during the daytime is due to dehydration, said Dr Vinod Prem Anand, consultant general physician, Fortis Malar Hospital. He said when a person sweats a great deal while being exposed to the sun, the sodium in the body goes down, leading to health problems.
Stress, erratic sleep and other lifestyle problems also cause headaches, Dr Vinod Pre Anand said, adding that hydrating the body was the only option left to tackle the condition.