Posts Tagged: ‘sinus headaches’

In Friday’s How-to Stuff, Cristen gave us a pretty interesting fun fact when she revealed that the most common source of head pain is ice cream — that was certainly news to me. But when I get a pain in the brain, ice cream is more likely to be a possible cure than a probable cause. So for those of us who don’t experience brain freeze, how are we to tell one headache from another? It’s important to know what kind of headache you’re treating before you start popping the pills.

Here’s my own fun fact for the day: about 90 percent of so-called sinus headaches are actually migraines, according to WebMD. While sinus infections can cause headaches, it’s pretty rare, and sinus headaches aren’t recognized as an “official” headache by the International Headache Society. I know that I was taught that if I had pain in my cheeks and at the front of my head, it was a sinus headache, but it turns out that 50 percent of migraines involve pain in that area as well, according to CBS.

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