Headache and Heat Illness

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Headaches (Cluster)Headaches (Cluster) involve severe, unilateral pain around the eye with autonomic symptoms like tearing and nasal congestion, occurring in cyclical patterns.Headaches (Migraine)Headaches (Migraine) involve recurrent throbbing head pain often accompanied by nausea, photophobia, and aura due to neurovascular inflammation and cortical spreading depression.Headaches (Tension-Type)Tension-type headaches cause bilateral, pressing pain without aura, often triggered by stress or muscle tension, and are a common primary headache disorder.Heat StrokeHeat stroke is a life-threatening heat illness marked by core body temperature above 40°C and CNS dysfunction due to failed thermoregulation.

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