What's the difference between headache and heartburn?

Headache


Definition:

  • (n.) Pain in the head; cephalalgia.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The main result of the correspondence analysis is a geometric map of this relationship showing how the relative frequencies of headache types change with age.
  • (2) She had three attacks of severe migrainous headache accompanied with nausea and vomiting within three weeks.
  • (3) In contrast, in those subjects with chronic non-migrainous headache, the administration of piribedil had no effect.
  • (4) The vasodilator effect of both calcium antagonists was responsible for side effects, of which the most common were flushing, edema, headache, and palpitations.
  • (5) A 68-year-old male was hospitalized because of headache, nausea, and disturbance of consciousness.
  • (6) The ophthalmic headache's crisis is caused, in fact, by a spasm of convergence on an unknown exophory of which the amplitude of fusion is satisfying, and the presence of which can only be seen with test under screen.
  • (7) Case 3 was that of a 70-year-old female with left impaired vision and frontal headache.
  • (8) After the fourth dose of L-asparaginase, he presented with severe headache and a CT scan showed a right temporal infarct.
  • (9) Frequency of symptoms like dizziness, headache, lachrymation, burning sensation in eyes, nausea and anorexia, etc, were much more in the exposed workers.
  • (10) Both the use of analgesics and the frequency of headache showed a significant increase for patients with post-traumatic headache when compared with a "control group" of 41 patients with unchanged headache and when compared with all patients with headache before the trauma.
  • (11) Pheochromocytoma may present without the typical features of paroxysmal or sustained hypertension, headache, increased sweating, and palpitations.
  • (12) These data suggest that the mechanism leading to a migraine attack can be operative 8-48 h before the headache begins and is possibly dopaminergically mediated.
  • (13) We found that, compared with younger patients, older headache patients had more tension headache and less migraine headache.
  • (14) The levels of E-type prostaglandins were measured in patients with facial and headaches.
  • (15) A 26-year-old man addicted to alcohol was admitted to hospital with headache and rhinorrhoea.
  • (16) --The frequency of common clinical manifestations (eg, headache, fever, and rash) and laboratory findings (eg, leukocyte and platelet counts and serum chemistry abnormalities) of patients with infectious diseases was tabulated.
  • (17) Childhood headache attacks resulted to be less frequent, less severe and with a shorter duration than in adult patients.
  • (18) Headache and vertigo were not linked with exposure to vibration in forestry and a significant part of the numbness reported may be due to the carpal tunnel syndrome.
  • (19) Headache, vegetative und neurological symptoms are frequent but not necessary companions.
  • (20) Furthermore, 97.6%, 95.7% and 94.8% of the subjects reported that depression, headache and sleep disturbances, respectively, had disappeared during therapy.

Heartburn


Definition:

  • (n.) An uneasy, burning sensation in the stomach, often attended with an inclination to vomit. It is sometimes idiopathic, but is often a symptom of often complaints.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nausea and heartburn occurred in 3 cases only and were controlled by reducing the dosage.
  • (2) A 62-year-old man with severe heartburn and persistent hiccups despite numerous diagnostic tests and therapeutic drug trials presented to our clinic.
  • (3) We speculate that hormone-related impairment of distal oesophageal clearance mechanisms may have a crucial bearing on whether heartburn develops in those individuals at greatest risk.
  • (4) Heartburn was induced by a meal consisting of chili, black coffee, and a spicy tomato drink mix.
  • (5) Heartburn was the most common symptom, more frequent in females than in males (p less than 0.01).
  • (6) Primary symptoms include dysphagia, odynophagia, heartburn and central chest pain.
  • (7) Symptoms of heartburn, regurgitation, and dysphagia were absent or minimal in most patients.
  • (8) The occurrence of heartburn did not correlate with the extent of reflux in the pH study.
  • (9) However, onions significantly increased all measures in heartburn subjects, compared with the no-onion condition, and compared with normals under the onion condition.
  • (10) Heartburn and epigastric pain, monitored every other week, were significantly relieved by both treatments, but to a significantly greater extent (70% vs 20% on average, p less than 0.01) and significantly faster (p less than 0.01) in the presence of triletide.
  • (11) 90 patients living more than 3 months complained of the following: heartburn, 18 (20%); reflux, 12 (13.3%); retrosternal pain, 3 (3.3%); stenotic sensation, 23 (25.6%); diarrhea, 10 (11.1%); abdominal pain, 14 (15.6%); and dumping syndrome, 6 (6.7%).
  • (12) Only ranitidine significantly reduced heartburn frequency and severity.
  • (13) 1) Symptom relief: Cisapride, usually at a dose of 10 mg t.i.d., was superior to placebo and metoclopramide in relief of daytime and night-time heartburn and regurgitation.
  • (14) Although heartburn, thought to indicate reflux of gastric contents into the oesophagus, occurs frequently in pregnant women during the last trimester, its aetiology is not clear.
  • (15) No patient experienced symptoms while swallowing water but one complained of heartburn and one developed symptomatic oesophageal 'spasm' during eating.
  • (16) Six subjects had mild subjective side effects after zindotrine (headache, dizziness, vertigo, flushing, and heartburn) compared with one report of lightheadedness after placebo.
  • (17) Logistic regression analysis showed increased risk of suffering heartburn with increasing gestational age (P < 0.0001), pre-pregnancy heartburn (P < 0.0001), parity (P < 0.0001) and inversely with maternal age (P < 0.05) but not with body mass index before pregnancy, race, or weight gain in pregnancy.
  • (18) Patients with gastroesophageal reflux often describe heartburn after "spicy meals."
  • (19) Heartburn, the most common presenting symptom, was abolished in 85.5% and epigastric pain in 84.6% of patients.
  • (20) Despite randomization of endoscopically normal patients, those treated with ranitidine had significantly more heartburn at baseline.