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Q: Are pollution headaches a real thing?

I've been getting more headaches recently and I'll often blame the pollution, but is there any medical basis in my flippant remark?

10 years 6 weeks ago in  Health & Safety - China

 
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For me personally, I think it has two main symptoms. Eyes go soar and throat goes dry. This might make me feel more tired, and if I am tired, chances of a headache increases. As far as I remember it hasn't actually happened that I've had a headache on a high AQI day, but then again, I am a young viking in my prime and I live in "one of the least polluted cities in China" .... and when you are done laughing of that sentence, then carbon monoxide poisoning has headache, nausea, fatigue listed as symptoms. But to get to a level where you are poisoned, you would have to e.g. sit in a closed room with a car engine running or attempt the good old indoor-bbq-suicide attempt. 

Scandinavian:

If you have frequent headaches, consider sticking your head in an MRI. Short of migraine sufferers, headaches should not be common. And should you have an inoperable brain tumor, you want the chemo started sooner than later. 

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The only headache I've gotten in years was when the pollution flared up quite bad here a few months ago.  There's definitely a substantial basis for pollution induced headaches I say.  I literally don't get headaches, but got a few this year when I was outside in those conditions  for a minimum of an hour or so.  I don't like wearing those Chinese masks which require you to breathe your own hot air back into yourself, so I just choose not to go outside on those days (no gym , no grocery shopping) and generally feel a lot better that way.

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('science/biology':) 'Men have always harder headache than women!'

 

Anybody cares to guess why?

 

Scandinavian:

I am too little of a misogynist to say it would have to be due to difference in brain sizes. Could be the male brain gets easier exhausted due to its limited capacity to multi task as much as is needed in the modern world. 

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Because the women cause all the men's headaches

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More emphasis is on 'biology' than on 'science'angry

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I would say it is possible. 

 

The reason for hangovers and headches after drinking too much is usually due to lack of hydration and the blood being not able to properly carry the oxygen to your brain and other body parts (explains numb limbs and nose etc. while drinking). It also thins the blood. 

 

Carbon dioxide & monoxide (CO2 & CO) reduces the amount of possible oxygen in the air and could place a burden on the circulatory system (obviously even kill you). Perhaps it doesn't pump enough oxygen because there is too much crud in the air or the lungs/circulation system are blocked up with crap. 

 

So I say... it is possible! But who knows... Maybe just looking at permanent GREY skies is enough to give anyone a headache. 

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You puss's! Why man's headache is more intense than woman's?

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....because 'man has 2 heads'

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