Has your head hurt more lately than normal? If that is the case one reason may be hot air.
A study published in the Neurology medical journal has concluded higher temperatures as well as low air pressure play some part in headaches. As one who suffers migraine-like headaches due to degenerative arthritis of the cervical spine, the latter part of that isn’t much of a surprise.
Periods of intense low barometric pressure such as from hurricanes and from certain types of winter storm systems often leave me feeling I was dragged through Hell hanging on to a sack of manure and the sack broke apart. I have read a good deal about the relationship or supposed relationship between low air pressure and arthritis but I don’t think any type of definitive link has ever been established. My friends sometime think I am stuck in the 19th century when I speak of my weather-related aches and pains.
But the higher temperature related to headaches is interesting. I have had headaches during times in which I was hot, including a few bouts of heat exhaustion. Also, I have seen people use a cool, wet rag on their head as a remedy for headache.
Given such news as this link between heat and low air pressure, it immediately gives me pause as to whether superheated air might be unhealthy such as that coming from our politicians. Of course, I don’t know whether all that hot air from places such as Washington and my state capital of Austin would produce high or low air pressure but either way I am sure if one is around it enough they are sure to get a headache.
But I also worry what might happen if all that hot air is not given a means to vent. Could you imagine? Why one day we could have a cataclysmic explosion (or implosion) from all that unvented hot air. So it seems we might have to choose. Do you want a headache, or do you want the Big Bang II?