How does MSG causes migraine?
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It causes migranes yet it continues to be used as a tastemaker. The molecular structure may induce certain changes in conformation of invivo proteins/ their expressio, and vasodilation/constriction of blood vessels in the head, casuing the migraine.
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A few recent medical studies suggest migraine is associated with transient ischemic attacks (temporary restriction of brain blood flow) and may lead to stroke; hence it may be fatal. However, more studies are needed to establish this as fact since conventional medical wisdom asserts that migraine has no proven connection with stroke, and is not lethal.
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I was having them daily for a while about a year ago. At first I had no idea what was going on I thought I was going blind or something. The worst part about it is how fatigued you feel. It also causes serious issues with driving when you frequently have ocular migraines. I talked to an optometrist and found out extended amounts of physical activity can trigger an ocular migraine. I have since toned down my work out and haven't had an ocular migraine since.
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MSG is just filth!\n\nI avoid it nearly as much as I avoid Aspartame.
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I am a long standing sufferer of migraines and what u describe certainly sounds like one (but go to see your doctor to get it checked out). There are a number of prescriptions you can have but i have recently seen a neurologist and he has suggested pure oxygen. 5 minutes of pure oxygen apparently gets rid of the migraine. I am yet to try it but thought id pass this info on. You can buy oxygen in canisters online. very popular for hangovers aswell. chocolate/alcohol and stress are the main factors for my migraines which i now try to avoid. hope this info is of help to you.
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Most headaches happen outside your skull, in the nerves, blood vessels, and muscles that cover your head and neck. Sometimes the muscles or blood vessels swell, which means they get larger. \n\nThey also can tighten or go through other changes that stimulate or put pressure on the surrounding nerves. The nerves send a rush of pain messages to your brain, and you end up with a headache.\n\nDifferent Kinds of Headaches\nThe most common type of headache is a tension, or muscle-contraction, headache. This happens when stressed-out head or neck muscles keep squeezing too hard. When you get this kind of headache, the pain is usually dull and constant. It might feel as though something is pressing or squeezing on the front, back, or both sides of your head.\n\nPain that's especially sharp and throbbing can be a sign of a different kind of headache called a migraine. Migraine headaches aren't as common as tension headaches, especially in kids, but they can still happen. Sometimes, just before a migraine happens, the person sees wavy lines or bright spots of light. This is called an aura. Also, people who get migraines often feel sick to their stomachs and sometimes throw up. \n\nWhat Causes Tension and Migraine Headaches?\nSometimes a headache is just a part of another illness, such as a cold or flu or strep throat. When you get better, the headache gets better, too. If you're not sick, other triggers may cause a headache. For example, staying up too late, skipping a meal, or playing in the hot sun too long can set off a headache. \n\nExcitement about a special event or worry about something (a school exam, for instance) can also cause headaches. Some people get headaches from riding in a car or bus or from straining their eyes by spending too much time watching TV or using a computer. \n\nStrong odors, such as perfume, smoke, fumes, or the smell of a new car or carpet, can start a headache. \n\nSome foods can cause headaches in some kids, such as bacon, bologna, and hot dogs. The caffeine in sodas, chocolate, coffee, and tea may cause headaches, too. Kids don't need caffeine, so it's a good idea to limit it in your diet. \n\nSometimes no one knows why a kid gets headaches, but if you get them, chances are someone in your family gets them, too. The tendency to get headaches is often inherited. In other words, it runs in the family.
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Research scientists are unclear about the precise cause of migraine headaches. There seems to be general agreement, however, that a key element is blood flow changes in the brain. People who get migraine headaches appear to have blood vessels that overreact to various triggers.\n\nScientists have devised one theory of migraine which explains these blood flow changes and also certain biochemical changes that may be involved in the headache process. According to this theory, the nervous system responds to a trigger such as stress by causing a spasm of the nerve-rich arteries at the base of the brain. The spasm constricts several arteries supplying blood to the brain, including the scalp artery and the carotid or neck arteries.\n\nAs these arteries constrict, the flow of blood to the brain is reduced. At the same time, blood-clotting particles called platelets clump together-a process which is believed to release the neurotransmitter serotonin. Serotonin acts as a powerful constrictor of arteries, further reducing the blood supply to the brain.\n\nMigraine is irregularly episodic, so there needs to be some explanation for why a particular migraine episode occurs at a particular time and not at another time. A migraine trigger is any factor that on exposure or withdrawal leads to the development of an acute migraine headache. Triggers may be categorized as behavioral, environmental, infectious, dietary, chemical, or hormonal. The trigger theory supposes that exposure to various environmental factors precipitates, or triggers, individual migraine episodes. Many people report that one or more dietary, physical, hormonal, emotional, or environmental factors precipitate their migraines. The most-often reported triggers include stress, over-illumination or glare, alcohol, foods, too much or too little sleep, and weather. Sometimes the migraine occurs with no apparent “cause.”\n\nMigraine patients have long been advised to try to identify personal headache triggers by looking for associations between their headaches and various suspected trigger factors. Patients are urged to keep a “headache diary” in which to note what they eat and when they get a headache, to look for correlations, and to try to avoid headache by avoiding factors they identify as triggers. Typically this advice is accompanied by a list of trigger factors.
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Osteopathy.  \n\nI am a massage therapist, not an osteopath - but I frequently refer to osteopaths.\n\nMost of my clients who get migraines have had some kind of birth trauma.  In other words, their crainum (head) was compressed or hurt in some way when they were born.  An osteopath can gently ease up the restrictions in your head and the rest of your body - possibly helping with your migraines.  Do some research about your own birth and about osteopathy.  Check out this web site and take a moment to read the description:
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it s not allergy , its kinda photosensitivity that causes the chest rash n it can be managed by sun screen lotions or sun blocks b4 u go out . and there r 2 possible causes for the migrain either u have migrain n the sun s just a precipitating factor or u r kinda hypotensive coz the heat decreases the blood pressure more causing the headache .
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"msg" is an atoundingly similar molecule to many amino-acids. no-one really had a problem with it (the Chinese have used it for eons) until the FDA mandated "accurate" labelling some time in the 1960s, and it went from being "seasoning salt" (which apparently upset no-one) to being "monosodium glutamate" (which all kinds of people were allergic to!\n\nDo you think maybe the way to stop people smoking & drinking is to require cigarettes & tobacco be labelled with some long, conjugated chemical names?
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Could be a lot of different things. Migraines are triggered by certain foods (and those sinus pains could be migraines, not sinuses...). The migraine triggers are cheesed, chocolate, caffeine, white sugar, garden shade vegetables (eggplant, tomato, pepper and potato), and other foods. \nStress is a known headache trigger too. If you're stressed your neck and shoulder muscles tense, and that causes the headache. \nIt could be food allergies (and you can develop new food allergies all the time). \n\nIn any case, if you've got the worse headache of your life, go to the doctor immediately.
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First off she needs to identify her triggers. Are the headaches related to stress levels ( good things bring stress too), foods (red wines, lunchmeat, cheeses, caffeine intake etc.), the weather, allergies (environmental), any neck/shoulder pain, menstrual cycle, or anything else that seems to occur just before the headache occurs. She can keep a headache log. Mark down when she has the headache and how bad it is. She can also think about what happened before the headache occurred.  I have included a couple of links that she may find helpful.\n\nFor me I found that certain foods, red wine, and job related stress were some of the triggers. The doctor then did MRI's of my brain and neck area to insure I didn't have any tumors that could have caused my everyday headaches/migraines. Once assured that there was no tumors, I was started on a medication that helps to prevent the frequency and severity of my migraine.\n\nExcerpts from the sites listed below:\n\nWhat causes migraine headaches? \n\nMigraine headaches seem to be caused in part by changes in the level of a body chemical called serotonin. Serotonin plays many roles in the body, and it can have an effect on the blood vessels. When serotonin levels are high, blood vessels constrict (shrink). When serotonin levels fall, the blood vessels dilate (swell). This swelling can cause pain or other problems.\n\nMany things can affect the level of serotonin in your body, including your level of blood sugar, certain foods and changes in your estrogen level if you're a woman.\n\nWhat things may set off a migraine? \n\nCertain things that can set off migraines in some people include the following:\n\nStrong or unusual odors, bright lights or loud noises \nChanges in weather or altitude \nBeing tired, stressed or depressed or the let-down after a stressful event \nChanges in sleeping patterns or sleeping time \nCertain foods (see the list below), especially those that contain tyramine, sodium nitrate or phenylalanine \nMissing meals or fasting \nMenstrual periods, birth control pills or hormones \nIntense physical activity, including sexual activity \n   \nFoods that may trigger migraines\n\nAged, canned, cured or processed meat, including bologna, game, ham, herring, hot dogs, pepperoni and sausage\nAged cheese\nAlcoholic beverages, especially red wine\nAspartame\nAvocados\nBeans, including pole, broad, lima, Italian, navy, pinto and garbanzo\nBrewer's yeast, including fresh yeast coffee cake, donuts and sourdough bread\nCaffeine (in excess)\nCanned soup or bouillon cubes\nChocolate, cocoa and carobCultured dairy products, such as buttermilk and sour cream\nFigs \nLentils\nMeat tenderizer\nMonosodium glutamate (MSG)\nNuts and peanut butter\nOnions, except small amounts for flavoring\nPapaya\nPassion fruit\nPea pods\nPickled, preserved or marinated foods, such as olives and pickles, and some snack foods\nRaisins\nRed plums\nSauerkraut\nSeasoned salt\nSnow peas\nSoy sauce\n\nCan I reduce how often I have migraines?\n\nYou may be able to reduce how often you have migraines by staying away from things that cause them. These are called "triggers." Common triggers include chocolate, red wine, cheese, MSG, strong odors, not eating, and poor sleep habits. It may be helpful for you to track and write down your triggers. You may be able to avoid the trigger and more migraines.\n\nIf you have migraines often, your doctor may prescribe medicine that helps prevent them.
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Most sugar free sodas and gums in the United States are flavoured with it.  When it breaks down from heat one of the byproducts is formaldehyde, which is not good for people.\n\nIt is also closely related to MSG, which give people migraines.\n\nSometimes it's not labeled in the ingredients, you have to search the label for "contains phenylalanine"
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It could be any number of things but you need to go back to the doc and get him to keep checking until they find out what is wrong.  With the migraines you need to see a neurologist and get these under control.  Also if the doc can't find out what is going on then ask to be sent to a specialist.  For now see your regular doc as well as neurologist for the migraines and find out what is going on.
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just answered a similar question for someone else. I'll paste the answer below. Also...Excedrin now puts out "Excedrin Migraines". I've found that on the rare migraine I get now...it helps a lot! \n\nAnyway, here is how I finally stopped getting migraines so frequently:\n\nMigraines are caused by fluctuating hormones. I've suffered from them terribly! I finally found a doctor who gave me this advice...and it's very rare now that I get them! :)\n\nHe told me to stay away from the following foods for a week before my period is due..and until my period stops:\n\nOnions, caffeine, chocolate, red wine, cheeses, foods with electrolytes and nitrates (such as gatorade, bacon, ham, processed meats), nuts, dried fruit and yogurt.\n\nSounds like there is nothing left to eat..but you manage to find things when the alternate is those AWFUL migraines.\n\nI hope this helps you too
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Traditional theories about headaches link tension type headaches to muscle contraction, and migraine and cluster headaches to blood vessel dilation (swelling). Pain-sensitive structures in the head include blood vessel walls, membranous coverings of the brain, and scalp and neck muscles. Brain tissue itself has no sensitivity to pain. Therefore, headaches may result from contraction of the muscles of the scalp, face or neck; dilation of the blood vessels in the head; or brain swelling that stretches the brain’s coverings. Involvement of specific nerves of the face and head may also cause characteristic headaches. Sinus inflammation is a common cause of headache. Keeping a headache diary may help link headaches to stressful occurrences, menstrual phases, food triggers, or medication. Tension-type headaches are often brought on by stress, overexertion, loud noise, and other external factors. The typical tension-type headache is described as a tightening around the head and neck, and an accompanying dull ache. Migraines are intense throbbing headaches occurring on one or both sides of the head. The pain is accompanied by other symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, blurred vision, and aversion to light, sound, and movement.\nMigraines are often triggered by food items, such as red wine, chocolate, and aged cheeses. For women, a hormonal connection is likely, since headaches occur at specific points in the menstrual cycle, with use of oral contraceptives, or the use of hormone replacement therapy after menopause. Cluster headaches cause excruciating pain. The severe, stabbing pain centers around one eye, and eye tearing and nasal congestion occur on the same side. The headache lasts from 15 minutes to four hours and may recur several times in a day. Heavy smokers are more likely to suffer cluster headaches, which are also associated with alcohol consumption.
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I`m not sure, but I would`nt think that whey proteins would contain soy, because whey is an animal ( milk  )product, and soy is a plant product. as for your migraines,try drinking a lot of water,stay away from allergy type foods, low light / noise levels may help I know there is an accupressure point somewhere on your hand that works on migraines... maybe between your thumb and first finger.I think.you would hold down (pinch ) gently but firmly the fleshy part between those two fingers for a few minutes each hand wait a few minutes then do it again.I`m not positive that`s the right pressure point, but it can`t hurt to try.