Appearing, some symptoms of diseases can bother a person with their unusualness. For example, a fever in the head. This feeling can occur completely by accident and, it would seem, for no reason - at work, on a trip by transport, during a walk or rest. Why is it felt? Is this a dangerous manifestation? What can cause it? How to determine what happens to the body when there is a fever in the head? You will find the answers to all these questions below.
What is it?
In fact, a fever in the head is a rather subjective sensation. But, nevertheless, indicating the real presence of pathology. Depending on the specific case, it can be very different:
- He throws his head in the heat, after which the burning sensation spreads to the neck, shoulders, back and spreads throughout the body.
- Discomfort associated with severe headache in the neck, crown, forehead or temporal zone.
- Symptom of heat in the head can occur as with an increased body temperature, or even without it.
- Often, a burning sensation is combined with increased sweating.
- In some cases, the skin of the face changes color - it turns pink, or even turns red and even crimson.
- Together with fever in the head, an increase in blood pressure, increased heart rate is noted.
Of course, all these manifestations are of a different nature, even though a person feels the same thing. Why does a feeling arise? There are a lot of reasons. From a malfunction in blood vessels to an overstrain of the nervous system. The most common cause of heat in the head is called by the doctors the ebbs and flows of blood to it. Due to the expansion-contraction of blood vessels. This process is accompanied by an unpleasant feeling - it seems to you that this part of the body is burning or burning.
Let's get acquainted with the main causes of heat in the head. We start with the simplest, most common, non-hazardous and end with serious, pathological conditions that are accompanied by a similar symptom.
Emotional stress
Hot flashes can cause various strong emotions and sensations - anger, fear, rage, chagrin, shame, despair and intense mental suffering. In some people, excessive intellectual overstrain, by the way, can also be accompanied by pain and fever in the head.
Additionally, symptoms such as redness of the face are noted here. The condition is not dangerous for life and health. But this is a signal for you to put things aside, calm down, and pull yourself together. Try to ignore the problem - both in thought and in space. Leave the room, take a walk in the fresh air. Once you calm down, the headache and fever in the head will disappear by themselves.
Wrong diet
It may seem unexpected, but junk food is also one of the common causes of this manifestation. In particular, too spicy food, products with an excess of sodium glutamate can be a sufficient reason. He throws his head in the heat for a short time.
Such a short-term sensation of high temperature, by the way, has its name - "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome". There is a lot of fast food, literally oversaturated with monosodium glutamate. This substance excites brain cells so much that it feels like the head is heating up, heating up. It passes over time on its own.
Allergy
If not only fever is felt, but also itchy skin is felt, rashes, sores appear, then this symptom indicates the onset of an allergic reaction. He deserves attention! But what to do in case of heat in the head in this case? You need to protect yourself from the effects of an irritating immune system factor.
If you already have a diagnosed allergy, then you must take the antihistamine prescribed by your doctor. If you are faced with a reaction for the first time, this is a good reason for an urgent appeal to an allergist.
Skin problems
Another reason is the presence of diseases affecting the scalp. Many of them are accompanied by an unpleasant burning symptom. In particular, dermatitis. You can also detect severe dandruff, rashes, excruciating skin itching.
As for the causes of fever in the head of women, it is possible to additionally highlight the incorrect selection of cosmetics - shampoos, hair masks, coloring, brightening curls of drugs. By acting on the skin, they can irritate it so much that there is a sensation of a strong unceasing burning sensation, as if covering the entire head.
Bad habits
Addiction to alcohol and tobacco can also be a sufficient reason for the feeling of heat in your head. Why? As for nicotine, under its influence the blood vessels narrow. Consequently, the flow of blood to the brain is impeded. This can be felt by an unpleasant burning sensation. Also, for many for the same reason, smoking tobacco is accompanied by a headache.
In people who abuse alcohol, this feeling of heat often appears. Due to the fact that parts of the brain responsible for vascular tone, autonomic, endocrine system are affected. The brain under the influence of alcohol begins to behave like an inept worker. Suddenly and unreasonably “turns on” a rush of blood to the brain, which is why a person feels a strange and incomprehensible sensation of heat.
Heatstroke
Quite a serious cause of the heat. This symptom can talk about both heat and sunstroke. They lead to a rush of blood to the head, since under these conditions the vessels expand.
Solar, heat stroke can be recognized by additional symptoms:
- Vomiting
- Nausea.
- Strong headache.
- Turbidity or loss of consciousness.
Be sure to take the victim to a cool, shaded place. Give him enough water, offer cold compresses before the arrival of qualified medical care.
Hormonal disorders
We also note that a similar symptom can talk about the period of hormonal changes in the body. For example, about menopause, premenstrual syndrome. During these periods, the proportion of the female hormone called estrogen, which is responsible for vascular tone, decreases in the body. Why its lack can lead to a violation of their regulation, which is displayed by periodic tides and ebbs of blood to and from the head. It is felt by a person as heat, burning. A woman may also complain of excessive sweating, a feeling of lack of air.
This problem is also characteristic of men. Only in the case of a decrease in the level of male hormone - testosterone. This is observed during menopause, any pathologies, diseases, injuries affecting the testicles. Lack of sex hormone is displayed on the tone of blood vessels. Their systematic expansions, cramps occur. As a result, it seems that he bakes his head, his ears and face are red.
Problems with the vascular system
If the flushes of blood to the head are not associated with menopause, menopause, we can talk about the presence of problems with the vascular system itself. In particular, the development of atherosclerosis and subsequent hypertension.
The heat in the head itself may indicate a hypertensive crisis. Since it is in this case that the blood supply to the brain is disturbed. In parallel with fever, you may feel a headache.
However, the danger of a hypertensive crisis is that it cannot manifest itself in any way as symptomatology. You continue to feel good while this serious pathological condition develops. You can notice it in time with regular blood pressure measurements with a tonometer. If the pressure rises above your "working" level, you must urgently take the medicine prescribed by your doctor.
VSD
Such a symptom can be felt by people suffering from vegetative-vascular dystonia. In particular, it indicates the onset of a vagoinsular crisis (an attack with VVD). The reason for this is the "imbalance" of the body, a violation of both its thermoregulation and control of vascular tone.
A vaginal attack, in addition to baking in the head, can be recognized by the following symptoms:
- Weakness or, conversely, strange excitement.
- Dizziness.
- Panic mood.
- Nausea.
- Dry mouth.
- Unreasonable rumbling in the stomach.
- Fainting condition.
Hyperthyroidism
The heat in the head also speaks of endocrine problems. In particular, about hyperthyroidism - an increased function of the thyroid gland. With this pathological condition, it produces thyroid hormones somewhat more than the body needs. They, in turn, accelerate the metabolism.
With this condition, there is an increase in body temperature, and sensations of heat, biscuits in the head. Moreover, the patient is in an excited state, he has a rapid heartbeat, trembling limbs, increased sweating.
Hydrocephalus
The common "folk" name is "dropsy of the brain." This disease is accompanied by increased intracranial pressure. Because of this, the patient may feel fever, an unpleasant burning sensation in the head, pain.
Most often, these unpleasant sensations haunt a person in the morning. However, in case of a running illness, symptoms continue to torment all day. In addition to them, the following is noted:
- Vomiting
- Nausea.
- Visual impairment.
- Labored breathing.
- Drowsiness.
Gastrointestinal surgery
It would seem, what's the connection? But everything is explained simply: digestion is more regulated by the hormonal system of the intestine. The substances that it produces, including dilate blood vessels and activate the vagus nerve.
During the operation, the hormonal system can be affected, damaged, which results in a violation of its functioning. One of the consequences is a rush of blood to the head due to vasodilation, which a person feels like heat.
Musculoskeletal problems
Here it is necessary to say about cervical osteochondrosis and spinal injury. In such conditions, excessive irritation of the nerve endings occurs. The consequences of which:
- Feeling of heat in the head.
- Dizziness.
- Headache.
- Unpleasant sensations in the muscles.
If the cause of neuralgia lies precisely in osteochondrosis, burning, baking appears in the crown of the head, and then spreads towards the back of the head.
Tumor
This symptom may also indicate the presence of a tumor in the brain. The fact is that the neoplasm compresses both neighboring tissues and the adjacent blood vessels. This makes the patient feel fever, pain in the head. Growing, tumors compress the vessels more and more, which leads to aggravation of symptoms.
What to do?
If you feel an unreasonable fever in your head, if a symptom bothers you periodically, you need to make an urgent visit to a therapist! To find out the cause of this manifestation, you will be assigned diagnostic procedures:
- General analysis of urine and blood.
- Hormonal blood test.
- Scheduling changes in blood pressure.
- MRI
- Cardiogram.
- Electroencephalogram.
- Roentgenography.
- Echoencephaloscopy.
Based on this, the doctor will make a presumptive diagnosis, redirect you to a narrower specialist - a neurologist, endocrinologist, cardiologist and others. The doctor, based on the results of diagnosis, on the basis of an accurate diagnosis, will already draw up an individual treatment regimen, which, among other things, will save you from the heat in your head.
The symptom with which we are acquainted is quite universal. It can talk about a variety of conditions, diseases, serious pathologies. Its true cause can only be determined by a specialist based on the results of a comprehensive diagnosis.