Confirm Your Food Trigger

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f diet change makes your headaches disappear or become much less frequent, the next step is to confirm which foods are that trigger migraine.

To do this, simply reintroduce the eliminated foods one at a time, every two days, to see whether any symptoms result. Start at the bottom of the list , and work your way up to the riskier foods, skipping any that do not care for. If you wish then check the beverages and additives on the common trigger migraine list.

As you do this, have a generous amount of each new food, so you will know whether or not it causes symptoms. If it causes no problem, you can keep it in your diet.

Anything that causes a headache should be eliminated again. After a week or two, try the suspect food once again for confirmation. Keep your diet simple so you can detect the effect of each newly added food.

Meats, dairy products, and eggs are best left off your plate permanently. Aside from being among the worst trigger migraine, they also tend to disturb your natural hormone balance, which contributes to migraines, as we will see shortly.

If two weeks on the basic anti-migraine diet does not reduce your headaches, the next step is to check whether a food that is not on the list of common trigger migraine may be causing your symptoms.

This occasionally happens and, in fact, some people are sensitive to several different foods. An elimination diet will help you sort this out.