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Report: Migraine triggers may not be so potent

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    Commonly held causes might not be responsible

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If you have migraines you know you'll do anything to prevent one.

And there's a lot of miss about what actually triggers them all the things we love chocolate.

Coffee bright lights there's a new study though that actually goes through what causes migraines.

We want to ask doctor -- first what are the real triggers and what are the ones that you're not gonna take away from us if we have Mike.

Jimmie thirty million Americans have migraines and most of them are women and that's largely because hormone hormone changes helped to trigger migraines.

But what is a migraine or migraine is a headache it's usually on one side it's the most common headache that gets you to the doctor's office.

There's a lot of controversy over what causes a migrated a lot of researchers believe there was inflammation in the blood vessels in your brain.

Recently we think it's irritation to a nerve in the face -- known as the -- general nerve so we look for treatments that actually cut down that irritation that's why seizure medicines.

Treat it that's the latest in migraine.

Research but what triggers migraines it varies person to person and the take home of this study which was a very small study of 27 migraine sufferers.

Published in a group in a very renowned journal neurology.

They all said.

Exercise and bright lights trigger -- migrants but when they were studied.

They were found that that the good work most of the time it didn't it wasn't what they said and it it brings up a point.

What is it about lights that triggers -- it may be going from a dark room suddenly into the light in May have -- -- to do with stress.

We always look at these studies and we see headlines in the media -- you know migraines are not caused by what they said but the reality here is.

This was a very small study and it's not proof that take home here is it's a personalized thing and you have to talk to -- you your physician -- it.

Chocolate is one idea hormones is another idea not sleeping can cause migraines stress can cause -- -- -- in.

In that in food can cause it and cheese.

And also in hot dogs nitro or what is -- remain -- -- that's it that's of a protein that's found in certain foods like aged cheese.

Okay and and I know that she's now and then the red one and nitrate and -- one could cause migrants nitrate sort of -- started it because of the person it's out of stocks -- -- like he got experiment you have to try to take away different things from your diet or lifestyle and see what is really triggering.

The individual persons -- keep it great and -- -- diarrhea and find out exactly what causes it.

JB I think the most important part of this is that you have different type of headaches.

That can cause different type of symptoms and different type of treatments is it really your blood in the in the brain that could be causing this.

Could be a tumor is that -- migrate you need to recognize exactly what migrating.

Headache is it didn't want it for it is pound piece stands for a pulsating headache it's a pulsating and it.

That would that -- would -- four to 72 hours.

You know it's on one side it causes nausea on and on -- so.

Recognizing these important but keeping you very strong diary and talk to a doctor this and that isn't sure exactly what triggers it.

Okay don't rule everything out -- you know.

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