Migraines

Migraines are horrible to get under normal circumstances, it’s evn worse when you’re pregnant.

Here we will look at migraine triggers, keeping a migraine diary to help identify your trigger and finally avoiding the migraine triggers.

Try these easy steps to help relieve or stop your pregnancy migraine.

1. Triggers of Migraines

Sometimes it appears that migraines occur for no apparent reason. However, something tends to trigger migraines even if it doesn’t seem like it at the time. Triggers can be all sorts of things.

Cheese, chocolate and foods with additives(e.g. tyramine) along with drinks like coffee, tea and red wine. Being tired Too much or too little sleep, tiredness, bright or flashing lights strong smells

Not having meals at regular times, stress or the time following a stressful situation, excessive noise, weather conditions, feeling tired due to lack of sleep or even getting too much sleep as well as bright flashing lights.

2. Keep A Migraine Diary

To try and understand what triggers your migraine you can use a migraine diary to log when they occur.

Log details such as date and time of migraine, foods you have eaten, medication you may have taken, sleep patterns, whether you feel tired, activities you have been doing. You can also record how severe you feel each migraine is.

It can often be a combination of different factors that causes you to have a migraine.

3. Remove The Cause of Your Migraine

By now you should see a pattern, this will help you find the cause or even causes of the migraines. It is a good idea to still complete your diary and log the improvements in your situation while removing the triggers from your daily life.