One in four American households has a member who suffers from migraines, according to the Migraine Foundation of America.
“I get asked all the time about a migraine diet,” she says. [and] “There's no one true migraine diet” that can prevent symptoms, says Dr. Fred Cohen, a headache specialist and assistant professor of medicine and neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
But some foods can cause… [migraine]“And it makes symptoms worse,” Cohen adds.
Here are some foods cited by migraine sufferers, people who frequently get migraines, as triggers for migraine attacks.
12 foods that may cause headaches and migraines
Cohen and Dr. Edmund Ahdot, MD, a board-certified neurologist, reviewed several clinical trials that studied the effects of certain foods on migraine symptoms.
These are the most common dietary triggers for headaches and migraines, according to a literature review by Cohen and Ahdot.
“There is no one specific food” that causes migraine attacks for everyone who suffers from them, but Cohen always advises his patients to “pay attention to [their] Diet.”
He advises his patients to keep a headache diary to track when their migraines occur and identify potential triggers.
“This is how we find out what triggers them,” Cohen says.
Sometimes diet isn't the cause. For myself [it’s] “Fly on an airplane,” Cohen notes.
“That's why a headache diary is so important [for] “Finding those types of triggers and behaviors that would trigger a migraine attack.”
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