See your doctor
Your doctor should evaluate your headache, especially if headaches are new for you, are unusually severe or persistent, or are accompanied by any of these characteristics:
• fever
• a change in your strength, coordination, or senses
• neck or back pain
• a chronic run - down feeling with pain in your muscles or
joints
• drowsiness
• difficulty thinking or concentrating
• progressive worsening over time
• the headache awakens you from sleep
• the headache follows head trauma
Fighting migraines with food
While the proof of food’s role in migraines is recent, it was as long ago as 1778 that John Fothergill wrote in his text on the “sick headache,” “My opinion of this disease is that for the most part it proceeds from inattention to diet, either in respect to kind or quantity or both.” He laid the blame at “milk and butter, fat meats and spices, especially common black pepper and meat pies and rich baked puddings.”3
Research studies have allowed us to be much more specific, both in identifying problem foods and also in finding foods that work as treat - ments. Let’s first take a look at those that can cause migraines because the easiest solution may be simply to avoid them.
