Migraine Food Triggers

Migraine food triggers are those food items that cause or intensify migraine attack resulting in throbbing and excruciating pain.

Migraine is a complex neurological condition which affects a vast section of people.

However, food triggers are not the sole cause responsible for traumatic experience.

Stress factor, hormonal changes, medication side-effects and even lack of sleep contributes to the cause of migraine.

There are various food items that trigger migraine onslaught. As such, your dietary habits play a crucial role in avoiding and minimizing the uninvited trouble in the form of migraine.

Fasting, dehydration, or skipping meals is not an answer or a solution to curb the menace of migraine. As an effective remedy, you must be aware of food products that aggravate migraine and importantly, whether those earmarked food items intensifies migraine problem in your case.

Undoubtedly proper knowledge of migraine food triggers help migraine sufferers to avoid those food products.

There are certain foods, which come under migraine food triggers category, like:

• Dairy and caffeine products

• Freshly bakery products contain yeast also act as food triggers causing migraine

• Dried fruits including dates, raisin and figs

• Fruits like pineapple, ripe bananas, raspberries, red plums, papaya, kiwi, citrus fruits and others.

• Other items like , chili pepper, olives, certain beans and soya products

• Processed meats like hot dogs, sausages and bacon

• Alcoholic drinks- vermouth, red wines, beer and champagne

• Aged cheese and other tyramine-containing foods.

The commonly known symptoms are:

• Agonizing pain across the front or sides of the head

• Feeling giddiness

• Burning sensation in the chest, neck or shoulder area.

• Abdominal problem

• Excessive flushing

Once you have identified the problem, you can abstain from those food products to reduce the frequency and intensity of migraine.

So, next time when you gorge on the eclectic menu a cloud of worry relating to food induced migraine attack may not disturb you – for you would be aware of the migraine food triggers.

Posted by Jan Heering
Headache – Migraine Treatment Expert and Author
Founder and President of the Morpheus Institute and
www.headache-migraine-release.com

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