What helps migraines best?

Answer 1

The National Headache Foundation estimates of the 30 million Americans who are known to suffer migraine headaches, this number is about half of the estimated 60 million total people who have migraines on a regular basis but have not been diagnosed.

Migraine headaches often follow a pattern of that a person can soon recognize once they are alerted to be aware of certain triggers, circumstances and situations in their lives within an hour or two of the onset of the migraine headaches.

When a person eventually figures out what thing or things are triggering the headaches to occur, the answer to what helps migraines best becomes rather apparent. By paying very close attention to what you are eating, feeling, touching and breathing, immediately prior to a migraine headache you are well on your way to learning how to avoid or at least control your contact and doing what is best to help your migraines.

A good place to begin your review is to consider common migraine headache triggers:

• Emotional stress, tension and worry. Strong emotional states causes what is called the "flight or fight response" that begins a release of brain chemicals that dilate blood vessels in the brain, leading to a migraine headache.
• Sensitivity to certain foods, food preservatives and food coloring agents.
• Caffeine, found in coffee, tea, cola drinks, and chocolate, as well as certain prescription and non-prescription medications.
• Rapidly moving weather fronts that cause storms.
• Fatigue, lack of sleep and heavy exercise.
• Hunger, and/or a rapid drop in blood sugar levels.
• Changes in the normal sleep pattern, even when not accompanied by fatigue or lack of sleep; just a simple alternation of a normal sleeping pattern can cause a migraine headache for some people.

The best help for migraines is to eliminate all known triggers if possible, or at least to control them. The more triggers are kept out of your life, the fewer migraines you will have.

Answer 2

There are many ways to cure migraines, or help relieve the pain inflicted by them. Some specialists suggest that a person's diet can cause migraines. The list of foods to avoid contain cheese or other foods that contain tyramine.