Friday, July 22, 2005

Do foods cause migraines?

ACHE Articles:
"Fasting is a headache trigger and should be avoided. Regular meals should be eaten throughout the day, including breakfast. It may also be helpful to follow a headache restrictive diet for a brief time. Limit your foods for 4 weeks. If there is no change in your headaches, then, as for most headache sufferers, foods are not a trigger for you.

If you are one of those rare people in whom headaches do improve on a restricted diet, you can add foods back into your diet one at a time to see which foods may trigger your headache. Eating a certain food should trigger a headache within 12 hours. Then you can limit those few foods to which you are sensitive. You should never restrict all possible trigger foods for a long time. This is not likely to be helpful, and too much concern about avoiding foods may be another stress, as well as decrease your enjoyment of mealtime."

My Take:

Rather than arbitrarily giving up whole groups of foods because some doctor "thinks" they might be bad, it certainly makes sense to verify for yourself. Each of us is different, so our migraine triggers should be unique too. I think I feel a "chocolate challenge test" coming on.

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