What triggers migraine headaches?
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- Certain foods can trigger migraines.
Foods that may trigger migraines:
- Aged, canned, cured or processed meat, including bologna, game, ham, herring, hot dogs, pepperoni and sausage
- Aged cheese
- Alcoholic beverages, especially red wine
- Aspartame
- Avocados
- Beans, including pole, broad, lima, Italian, navy, pinto and garbanzo
- Brewer’s yeast, including fresh yeast coffee cake, donuts and sourdough bread
- Caffeine (in excess)
- Canned soup or bouillon cubes
- Chocolate, cocoa and carob
- Cultured dairy products, such as buttermilk and sour cream
- Figs
- Lentils
- Meat tenderizer
- Monosodium glutamate (MSG)
- Nuts and peanut butter
- Onions, except small amounts for flavoring
- Papaya
- Passion fruit
- Pea pods
- Pickled, preserved or marinated foods, such as olives and pickles, and some snack foods
- Raisins
- Red plums
- Sauerkraut
- Seasoned salt
- Snow peas
- Soy sauce
Also some other migraine triggers
- Smell.
- Light.
- Noise.
- Driving in traffic.
- Being in crowd.
- Unexpected events.
- Anticipation of something.
- Looking forward to something.
- Bad pillow.
- Bad sleep.
- Being warm old cold during the night.
- Sitting in front of the computer for more than a few minutes.
- Bad posture while sitting.
- Anxiety.
- Anger.
- Alcohol.
- Night out.
- Flying.
and many more things can trigger migraines.