You should consider treating your headache naturally with water.  You should try to understand what could be causing the headach.  Is it from tension?  Headaches that can result from stress, fatigue or physical problems, psychological, emotional or even depression.

Could it be  a cluster headache, which come in groups of one to four a day in a set clusters that could be for days or months. Hormonal headaches can be similar to migraines in that they affect only one side of the head, and they are also frequently accompanied by nausea, vomiting and sensitivity to light and/or noise. Finally, there are sinus headaches, which can be after a cold or other medical condition.
Water can help as a treatment for headaches. Tension headaches, cause fatigue.  Fatigue is a side effect of dehydration.  So, if  you treat the dehydration you are also treating the  headache.  Tension headaches could also be a symptom of other problems, so if they persist it is recommended that you seek help from your doctor.  Cluster headaches can also be helped by drinking water.  You could also take a nice warm shower as this helps relax the body.

As the saying goes prevention is better than cure so staying hydrated will help. Its well known that caffeine withdraw will give you a headache. Having a coffee or Cola drink can hyradate the body to help ease the headache pain, but it could also begin a vicious cycle.

So basically, when dealing with headaches the pain can be relieved from water on the inside and out. Drinking fresh clean water is the best way to help. Mains fed water coolers supply fresh cold filtered water as a constant supply and can be fitted up to 50 metres away from a mains supply.  You could choose to have a Water Cooler on rental to ensure that the unit is regularly serviced and filters are replaced to ensure a great fresh taste.

In conclusion your body needs to be constantly hydrated and having access to clean fresh water is the a great way to keep those headaches at bay, obviously we would always recommend you seek medical attention if you are in any way concerned about your headaches.

The importance of water is well known but often over looked in office environments in favour of hot drinks and vending machines. Staying hydrated is one of the simplest ways to improve health, concentration and well being. It can lead to lower levels of sickness absence and increased mental and physical performance. Caffeinated drinks can worsen the effects of dehydration and negatively effect employee performance unless consumed along side water or other non-caffeinated drinks.

What are the symptoms of dehydration?

Some of the physical symptoms of dehydration include:

• Tiredness
• Light-headedness
• Headaches
• Migrains

Dehydration also effects mental performance and has a wide range of symptoms including:

• Difficulty concentrating
• Reduced alertness
• Shorter attention span
• Poorer information retention

All of the symptoms mentioned above impact on employee performance; it can reduce productivity, cause a poorer standard of work and errors and negatively affect the office ethos.

How can you help employees stay hydrated?

There are many ways to encourage members of staff to regularly drink water but first, it’s important to make sure you’re complying with standards set out by the Health and Safety Executive. The right of access to fresh drinking water is set down in the Workplace Health, Safety and Welfare Regulations 1992; specifically it states, 1) there should be an adequate supply of wholesome drinking water, 2) it should be a) readily accessible and b) conspicuous to members of staff and 3) there should be an adequate numbers of cups or drinking vessels except for water fountains etc where drinking water is in a jet.

We recommend that you go above and beyond the regulations set out by the Health and Safety executive to proactively encourage staff to remain dehydrated instead of stopping at the provision of adequate drinking facilities. In many parts of the UK tap water suffers from hardness because of a high mineral content. There are three solutions to provide great tasting, fresh drinking water to members of staff:

• Office water coolers provide fresh cooled, drinking water. There are two types of office water cooler
  • a) plumbed water coolers which are plumbed into the mains water supply and both filter and cool the water,
  • b) bottled water coolers use water from.
• Water softeners and filters can be used to remove minerals and make tap water taste better.
  • a) These can be purchase as standalone water softeners and have tap water poured into them
  • b) water softeners can be plumbed into the mains to filter and soften your water supply.

We recommend using a plumbed water cooler in your office to enjoy a constant supply of fresh drinking water. With bottled water coolers there is always the potential that you’ll run out of water, water filters and softeners can be slow to filter water and using a mains plumbed water softener can be more expensive than a plumbed in water cooler