What causes migraine headaches?

Oh, the many causes Diet/Allergy: Many foods can trigger migraines. We hear about this all the time. Wines, aged cheeses, and chocolate being the most popular culprits.

What is not often talked about is the role poor nutrition can play in causing migraines. Magnesium deficiency and a lack of the B vitamins are the most prominent. Maintaining a consistent eating pattern is also important, because dips in blood sugar or dips in your serotonin levels caused by lack of food can trigger a migraine Environmental allergies: such as to mold Smoking Besides acting as an allergen and tripping you up that way, migraines may be caused in part by excess dopamine.

Nicotine increases dopamine Odors: Some migraineurs exhibit a sensitivity to perfumes or certain odors Sunlight. Fluorescent light. Glare from computer screens Sometimes it is the light itself, sometimes it is flickering - such as the almost imperceptible flicker of fluorescent lights, or a ceiling fan than is spinning over a light source Stress, both directly and indirectly Directly, because the physical changes brought on by stress (or by relaxations after long periods of stress) can cause migraines.

Indirectly, because stress as a whole lowers your threshold for any other migraine trigger you might have. For example, perhaps you can normally stand 5 hours under fluorescent lights. Being stressed might lower that threshold down to 3 hours Weather (barometric changes, cold, humidity, etc.. Different weather patterns affect people differently.) Extreme temperature shifts: such as staying in air conditioning all day and then walking outside into humid, summer weather.

Or taking an incredibly hot shower and then running to catch the bus on a freezing day. You want to give your body time to adjust Dehydration Patent Foramen Ovale PFO is a congenital birth defect in which there is a small hole in the heart. Having surgery to correct this anomaly can help cut down on the frequency of your migraines Lack of sleep OR too much sleep (Maintaining a normal sleep schedule is key.

This means not sleeping in until all hours on the weekends. You get up at the same time every day, you go to bed at the same time.) Hormonal changes (puberty, menstruation, pregnancy, perimenopause, menopause) Migraines from exertion These can be brought on from exercise, or sometimes brought on by sex Injury: Some people have migraines develop only after injuries, like a concussion, or neck trauma Pseudotumor cerebri where too much cerebrospinal fluid in the body is pressing on the brain. Sufferers are asked to maintain a healthy weight, and are often put on diuretics to help them urinate excess fluid from the body Chiari Malformation a condition where the lower back part of the skull is too small, and presses in on the brain.

Surgery is the preferred treatment.

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