Thursday, April 16, 2015

Migraines and Diet

I recently read a book about migraine and diet triggers.  A famous neurologist from Johns Hopkins University believes all migraines can be controlled with a very strict diet. I believe his views are extreme but there is definitely a place for diet evaluation and control to alleviate migraine.  We all know the common triggers of chocolate, caffeine, msg,  but there are many others.  His theory is that we  all have a threshold for headache. Some people have a very low threshold.  If they are exposed to many headache triggers at a time and they reach their individual threshold, the headache starts.  I think this is a very interesting idea and probably is true. The trick is to tease out what are a person's specific triggers. I believe, along with food triggers, there are other sensory triggers.  Fluorescent lighting, loud noises , strong smells are all well know to be migraine triggers.  Now if the patient also has a binocular vision dysfunction,  we see how this can put them easily over the headache threshold in our highly visual computer world.  If you do suffer from headaches and have found no relief,  please email me at drcbisraeloff@gmail.com. There is help.