Sometimes you know caused what they beat in your skull. Other times, you are wrong. Headaches - if migraines or less painful but still boring of tension headaches debilitating - compensation often or trigger, aggravated by a key explains Brian big mountain, MD, Director of the programme of headache headache patients at Montefiore Hospital Center in New York.
Here, the seven most provocative pain and suffering to avoid. (See suffer, if these DIY updates are enough, for those, the headache from your doctor, prescription drugs can help).
They emphasize that account for 80% all migraines a ne, according to a study in the journal of headache. This is because it causes changes in cortisol and adrenaline - fight or flight hormones - may cause pain and nausea, Sheena said Aurora, MD, Medical Center k. headaches at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle Director. Stress can also make, pain in the neck, which can in turn set off the coast of tension-type headache caused you bale your jaw and neck muscles.
Tamer trigger: meditation, deep breathing, massage and Yoga helps. The biofeedback - more information of the society for psychophysiology and biofeedback you should a body-mind technology, called.
You are hormonal
The dip in estrogen, lead to migraine just before the period. Similar hormonal fluctuations can cause also headaches during pregnancy and menopause and perimenopause.
Tamer trigger: take a prescription medication of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory (NSAIDs) such as naproxen or ibuprofen two days before the drugs that you wait for your, for the duration, if the headache is likely. If you experience headaches during pregnancy, questions you to recommend your doctor for a plan of pain relief.
Weather change
People with migraine may rather be affected if the temperatures are high, a study in the journal Neurology. (The density of air in the atmosphere) can pressure headache, to lead to the sinus.
Tamer trigger: you are best to avoid the triggers of the headaches on hot days - and keep a NSAID page just in case.
You sleep well
Insomnia is associated with low of the hormone serotonin. This leads that blood in the brain of the extension ships and enabling of n. trigeminal nerve - the most important nerves in migraine, said Dr. big mountain - results in the release of causing pain and inflammation chemicals.
Tamer trigger: go to bed and get up at the same time every day (even on weekends!), reduced caffeine and exercise regularly.
She smelled bad Cologne
"The trigeminal nerve projections in the wall of the nose,", said Dr. big mountain. If you notice a harmful odor, the nerve of the substances that share in the production of headache can.
Tamer trigger: avoid using the fragrance or clear scented candles, SOAP and cleaning products and stores of this controlling reek of them.
You are blinded by the light.
-Fluorescent lamps, reflections of the computer, or even the sun - light can trigger this ruin trigeminal nerve.
Tamer trigger: if possible, move of fluorescent lamps with bulbs incandescent soft, Dr. big mountain, said. A Nonglare on the computer screen and try to reduce your energy consumption. If you work on a computer in a room with fluorescent lamps and white walls, pictures on the walls, which absorb excess of light, hang Paul-Henri Cesar, MD, advises Director of headache medicine at Columbia University.
They are the bad things - eating or not eating enough
The most likely culprit: Food, the the amino acid tyramine (as of age cheese and wine), nitrate (hot dogs, deli meats, cold cuts and other meats) or the amino acid phenylalanine (chocolate). Three substances cause which vessels constrict blood and expand you then, headache. Missed meals, also solves, because the brain is a hypersensitivity to changes of blood glucose levels, Aurora, said Dr.
Tamer trigger: food and drink water regularly and make sure that these meals, rich in proteins, to help you fed up and maintaining the sugar in the blood. It is also important to understand that, if any, food bothers you and use your diet.
New support for migraine
Although doctors Botox on the label have used as a treatment for chronic migraine years since, the recent approval by the U.S. food and drug is Administration (FDA) now more means insurance companies on recordings.
The average salary is 31 injections in seven areas around the head and neck, carried out every three months. Which may extremely, but it is worth for many patients with severe, says Stephen d. Silberstein, MD, Director of the Jefferson headache Center at Thomas Jefferson University.
Warning: Go do you not, a dermatologist or a walk-in for this treatment, said. On the contrary, make an appointment with a neurologist, your history of migraine and make sure that you are a good candidate. -Kimberly Holland