Old people often headache can be cerebral infarction

There are many causes of headache in the elderly, cerebral infarction is only one of them, the pathogenesis of headache in elderly patients is mainly related to cerebral blood supply deficiency or nerve disorders. If the patient has hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia and other primary diseases for a long time, it may cause cerebral infarction, cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral thrombosis and other cerebrovascular diseases, so it will show headache symptoms. If the patient is often accompanied by neck discomfort performance, headache performance can also be considered because of cervical spondylosis, resulting in compression of blood vessels in the spinal canal, caused by insufficient cerebral blood supply performance. If the patient does not sleep well for a long time, it can also be considered as a neurological headache symptoms. In addition, some intracranial space-occupying lesions can also stimulate brain cells, causing headache performance. At this stage, only according to the patient's clinical symptoms, it is impossible to determine the specific cause, so it is necessary to go to the neurology department of the hospital in time.