Migraine Food triggers:Could This Be Your Problem?

Migraine food triggers may be the curprit of your pain.

All of your headaches, whether they are so called sinus, tension headache, stress headache, or the dreaded one,"migraine headache", could be triggered by food or beverages you consume everyday.

You may not get a headache soon after you consume food. It may be a day or so before you have your headache.

And that makes it so hard to remember what we have eat, or drank the day before.

Many people endure nearly constant headaches, never dreaming the cause could be something in their diet, something you love to eat.

One thing I would like to let you know about, if you have a child that is having headaches, and they have went on a diet, their headaches can be caused by the change in eating habits, and go unrecognized, and it's pretty common in young ones.

If you have the severe type of headache known as migraine (my better half has these) than migraine food triggers are a particular worry.

The same foods that trigger a migraine, can also trigger less severe vascular headaches.

All of your stress, sinus, and tension headaches, you have, are milder versions of the big one "migraine".

Headaches all stem from the same brain biology, and are called vascular headaches.

If something triggers your headache such as a food, then diet has to be considered a culprit in all such benign headaches.

Benign just means that something serious, that is causing your head to hurt, has been ruled out.

Remember on another page I told you about two friends that had migraines.

One found out that aged cheese (loved to eat it, was a no,no) and the others migraine was triggered by her sons cologne. She threw her son out (just joking).

It is believe that out of around forty five million headache sufferers, and twenty eight million migraine sufferers (just in the USA alone)there are also millions that suffer from migraine food triggers.

Some triggers you have no control over, such as the weather, strong odors, bright lights, and your menstrual cycles.(In women)

You may not get a headache soon after you consume something. It may take up to a day. That's why it's so important to keep a migraine diary. Many foods, food additives, and other food-related constituents contain chemicals that affect the constriction of cranial vessels that triggers the migraines.

Foods that may trigger your migraines

#(1) Tyramine, found in some cheeses, red wine, pickled fish, and certain types of processed meat

#(2) Chocolate,cocoa and carob

#(3) Nuts (including peanut butter even though peanuts are not a nut, but a legume)

#(4) Citrus fruits, bananas, figs, red plums, and raisins

#(5) Beans

#(6) Bananas

#(7) Pickles,marinated food

#(8) Dairy product

#(9) Overripe fruits

#(10) Fermented products such as soy sauce, and breads with high yeast content

You may not get a migraine from eating one food that triggers migraines, but if one of your triggers is, say red wine, and you drink a glass, and top it off with a big piece of blue cheese, and had a stressful day, then bingo, you may have a terrible migraine.

A small amount that you consume may not give you a migraine.

Your migraine food triggers may be because of what you drink

If you were to go solely by the information about aspartame that you can find on the Internet, you might very well think this product was created by the devil himself.

But if there is any chance that your migraines may be from drinking this, stay away from it.

I also think that aspartame is highly addictive, believe it or not.

When you drink one, not long after that you want another.

You can Google "aspartame headaches", then sit back and read for a long time. You'll be amazed at what you find out. It's also called NutraSweet.

I will let you be the judge on this. I am giving you a link to look at. It has a great deal of information in it.

Another of the migraine food triggers, but in liquid form is red wine, champagne, dessert wine, rose, white, and beer.

They have histamine.

If you are sensitive to dust, pollen, of any foods, your body makes extra histamine, then if you consume red wine, or even champagne, two much histamine can set off your migraine.

Fragrances, smoking, and stress, can also trigger migraines.

The things you can control that are triggering your headache can be controlled by you.

The others, like the changes in the weather, that you have no control over, are a bit tougher.

Find what you are sensitive to for one of your migraine food triggers.

But your Doctor can arrange special blood tests that are much faster. The skin patch is of no use when testing you for migraine triggers.

If your migraines persist, these supplements to the right have been tried, and tested for the treatment of migraines

None of these supplements are dangerous, but the diagnosis and treatment of migraines sometimes require both medical expertise(make sure you have a good headache specialist) and life style changes.

Our next page is on a migraine food trigger for some, and it's what we all love, chocolate. More migraine triggers, and what causes migraines.

Does any food send your head through the roof?

Out of all the foods and beverages, tell us which one makes your head hurt.

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