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Like any experienced migraine will tell you they can be migraine triggers that food send them off into a headache.
For me, alcohol is the winner. And I think just about all forms including most wines, beer and mixed drinks. (Hey, that’s good news .. I will never be an alcoholic. The pain is simply not worth it!) Funnily enough, when I was young, I thought a terrible headache, pounding with nausea and vomiting shortly after drinking from a few drinks, it was normal! Hmm .. With alcohol, the most common cause is red wine. In general, the dryer and red wine, the greater the risk for migraine attack. This is due to the amount of tannins in red wine. Let’s talk about the myth of CHOCOLATE caused headaches. Not really true. Nope. Nada. Zip. One recent study suggested that since chocolate contains copper, it can lead to increased copper and then a migraine trigger. However, you should be eating a lot of it is not just a few pieces to cause headaches. So, why do you get a migraine after eating chocolate? Migraine have a pro-dromal phase where you “feel” something coming. During this time certain parts of the brain are firing off and one of them can stimulate food cravings, especially sugar or sweets. Now we all loovve chocolate, is not it? Then after lunch, the headache always follows.
Hence the assumption that chocolate causes headaches. So next time, recognize this, the beginning phase of a migraine. Still not you or me permission to eat a pound of the stuff, but you get the idea.
What about caffeine? Well, caffeine is not a migraine, but when one serious chronic migraines, all caffeine does is it even worse. It irritates nerve tissue (that would be your brain!) And over time, speeds up to headaches.
Additional food migraine triggers:
Nuts, aged cheeses, foods containing nitrates (bacon and lunch meat), smoked or pickled foods. Some patients tell me, onions are a trigger, as well as packaged foods with lots of chemicals.
Some recent studies are now available on the effects of gluten or wheat products in the diet and migraine. Aspartame (artificial sweetener) is also known to trigger migraines.
Try those foods that have a trigger-guided tour through a diary for at least 90 days to submit your triggers .. then can be avoided. Sort of the old adage: if it hurts when you do .. not done.