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- Title
Headaches in the Pregnant Patient.
- Authors
MEHTA, NIHARIKA
- Abstract
The article presents a case study of a 22-year-old woman, diagnosed with daily headache in the second half of pregnancy. Topics discussed include occurrence of sinus headache common in patients due to increased vascularity and mucus production causing sinus congestion, patient showed absence of preeclampsia and was treated with acetaminophen and caffeine for symptomatic relief and 37 weeks gestation showed severe intractable headache and borderline hypertension and labor was made to induce.
- Subjects
HEADACHE diagnosis; PREGNANCY complications; SINUSITIS; PREECLAMPSIA diagnosis; ACETAMINOPHEN; MILD hypertension; LABOR (Obstetrics)
- Publication
Rhode Island Medical Journal, 2015, Vol 98, Issue 2, p29
- ISSN
0363-7913
- Publication type
Case Study