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Migraine Headaches Causes
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Written by: Marion Jones
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Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 |
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Headaches in any kind are always painful for the sufferer. However, some headaches, like migraines, for instance, can cause even more problems than just a headache. These problems could be sickness, light sensitivity and a banging pain in the head. Sometimes the headache acts on one side of the head, and other times you can feel the pain on both sides of the head at the same time.
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The real causes of migraine headaches has yet to be discovered, although there are a few theories why people have migraine headaches. The most commonly held belief is that an alteration in the blood flow within the brain is one of the triggers that causes migraine headaches. Another theory about migraine headache is that maybe it could be caused by pain sensing chemicals called neuropeptides.
Many medical professionals speculate that neuropeptides ease the muscle that surrounds the cranial blood vessels. This relaxation causes the blood vessels to dilate. The relaxed blood vessels increase the flow of blood and other cranial fluid to the brain. This increase in fluids is thought to be the cause of migraine headaches.
These cranial fluids are the reason for inflammation, pain, sensitivity, tissue and blood vessel inflammation during the time of the migraine headaches. Many people think that the aura that is sometimes seen during a migraine headache is caused by the constriction of the blood vessels that became dilated during the beginning period of the migraine headache.
Another theory about the causes of migraine headaches has been linked to genetics and inheritance. These theories state that a child of migraine sufferers will have a 50% probability of getting migraine headaches too.
The chances of inheriting migraine headaches is even greater if both parents are sufferers from this painful kind of headache. If both parents have frequent migraine headaches the chances of the child having migraine headache symptoms rises to about 70%.
Now even though many professionals think that inheritance plays a large part in migraine headaches the genes that may be considered as the causes of migraine headaches have not been identified or even isolated. When we begin to experience migraine headaches the only warning signs that we may receive are a throbbing pain in the temple area and light sickness.
As the symptoms of the migraine progresses, the pain becomes much more severe. Unfortunately, since the causes of migraine headaches have yet to be found and we dont know what triggers these attacks, there are no medications to cure this type of headaches yet.
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