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Benign Hot Bath‐Related Headache
Author(s) -
Negoro Kiyoshi,
Morimatsu Mitsunori,
Ikuta Naomi,
Nogaki Hiroshi
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
headache: the journal of head and face pain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.14
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1526-4610
pISSN - 0017-8748
DOI - 10.1046/j.1526-4610.2000.00026.x
Subject(s) - headaches , medicine , anesthesia , abnormality , electroencephalography , lesion , neurological examination , pediatrics , surgery , psychiatry
We describe three cases of women with hot bath‐related headache who reported that their severe paroxysmal headache could be provoked by pouring hot water over themselves or by soaking in a hot bath. In one patient, the headache was also brought on by exposure to cold wind. Another patient had headaches after she dived into a pool and started swimming. Neurological examination, routine laboratory tests, electroencephalography, and brain imaging showed no abnormality in any of the patients. Hot bath‐related headache is a benign headache unassociated with a structural lesion.