Sentences with phrase «trigger migraine attacks»

Foods trigger migraine attacks in about 10 % of cases.

«Determining the factors that trigger migraine attacks is an important, albeit difficult, step in managing migraine,» explains Christian Wöber, head of the section specializing in headaches at MedUni Vienna's Department of Neurology.

Yet in some of these patients, it also triggers a migraine attack within six hours.

The factors which trigger a migraine attack, or also other headaches, are inadequately understood.

Not exact matches

«Triggers for migraine attacks determined for individual patients.»

Each of the 33 migraine trigger factors investigated correlated with migraine attacks, in at least some of the patients.»

For the first time, the trigger factors responsible for a migraine attack were not determined for a collective but rather separately for each individual patient.

The trigger of these responses to specific visual stimuli will probably differ from the photophobia that individuals with migraine typically report during an attack.

In this video, Dr. Broner explains how to watch for the ways in which migraine triggers work together to initiate an attack.

Many of these hidden ingredients are irritants and can trigger allergic attacks, migraines, and chemical - induced nerve irritation in sensitive individuals.

Some migraine sufferers are able to identify dietary or environmental factors that trigger an attack, such as sensitivity to dietary histamines, sulfates or sulfites, monosodium glutamate (MSG), other additives and preservatives, or changes in barometric pressure.

Women are affected disproportionately, partly due to fluctuating estrogen levels as attack triggers: about 28 million women in the US suffer migraines, and women make up 85 % of chronic migraine sufferers (1).

Many sufferers of migraines have long believed environmental factors like heavy weather and lighting can trigger an attack but new research from the US has identified a genetic link.