While making your initial rounds after coming on shift, you find a client thrashing about in bed complaining of a severe headache. The client tells you the pain is behind his right eye, which is red and tearing
What type of headache would you suspect this client of having? A) Migraine
B) Tension
C) Cluster
D) Sinus
C
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A person with a cluster headache has pain on one side of the head, usually behind the eye, accompanied by nasal congestion, rhinorrhea (watery discharge from the nose), and tearing and redness of the eye. The pain is so severe that the person is not likely to lie still; rather he or she paces or thrashes about. The symptoms in the scenario do not describe a sinus headache.
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