CHEM 183 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Decongestant, Xylometazoline, Doxylamine

• School: McGill University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 183
• Professor: Joe Schwarcz

Document Summary

90% of population suffer from headaches: used to put pins in nose to get rid of headache, people used to do trepanation to remove headaches, 12 main types of headaches, 60 sub-types, 2 main types: Muscular: mostly due to stress, see it a lot on younger people and in urban areas, women outweigh men, overrated headache: tmj (temporo mandibular joint) Claim that most headaches come from mis-alignment of the jaw. Alcohol (a vasodilator) - pain caused by dilation of blood vessel around the skull. Within alcohol, congeners are produced together with alcohol. Congeners - greater concentration of congener in alcohol, more headache. More aged, and more colour = higher concentration of congeners: foods that contain histamines also give headaches: Some people get headaches from drinking champagne. Champagne is mostly made of red grapes. If you are heavy coffee drinker, your blood vessels constrict. Ice cream: pop (post orgasmic pain)