Tips for migraine

 We all get headaches and the vastmajority of them and nothing to worry about in this video I'm going to teach you how to get rid of them and when you should seek medical attention so what can we do to stop headacheswell drink plenty water six to eight glasses a day avoiding missing mealsavoid drinking alcohol and when you can exercise now you can also takeparacetamol or ibuprofen to help with the pain.

 but always speak...

 to your  pharmacist and readthe information leaflet to make sure that it's suitable and safe to take italso remember that if you're taking the painkiller for 15 days or more per monthit can actually be causing your headache this is something called medicationoveruse and I'll leave more information about this in description below for younow there's also many things that can either bring on a headache or make itworse and these are often overlooked by many patients so let's run through them

 tip number 1 now you may find that you work ten hours a day Monday to Fridayyou get no headaches and on a weekend you wake up with apounding headache now this is all because your stress hormones aredropping and you're getting a rapid release of neurotransmitters so to avoidthese weekend headaches you need to try and sleep for seven to eight hours on aweekend I know you're tired I know you've worked really hard but this over sleeping is causing the headaches also try and incorporate relaxing time during your weekdays don't just save it all for the weekend so try and incorporatesomething like yoga throughout the week as well and this will help which moves us on to 

tip 2 if you think housework is giving you headaches then you could beright because many cleaning products perfumes air fresheners containchemicals that can bring on headaches so I guess it could be an excuse for younot to do the cleaning now to fix this it's pretty simple just avoid usingheavy smelling cleaning products and perfumes and air fresheners and thingslike that also leave as many windows open as possible and it's gonna help getmore fresh air in and more of the heavy smells out

 tip number 3 bright lights flickering lights and even glare these can actually induce migraines byincreasing certain chemicals in the brain which activate the migraine centernow to fix this try wearing sunglasses polarized lenses also help with theglare from monitors you can also try adjusting the brightness on your monitorthis will help with the glare or use a glass screen now if you're working in anoffice or somewhere that has fluorescent lights these tents of flicker so try anduse an alternative light source which will help with this which moves us on to

 tip 4 posture now bad posture can cause tension in your back in your neckand even in your shoulders and this can bring on headaches so instead try not tosit down or stand up for long periods in the same position try to move aroundmore and try to sit upright as much as you can 

tip number 5 is all aboutanger now we all get angry it's normal but remember when you do get angry themuscles in the back of your neck in your scalpthey tense and this can cause tension headaches so you need to find ways torelax more so when you feel like you gonna get angrytake a deep slow breath in through your nose and out of your mouth I'll alsoleave some really useful links of different relaxation techniques all ofthese are gonna help relax the muscles and reduce your risk of getting these tension headaches

 

tip number six food triggers now we'reall different and different foods can affect us all differently whether commontriggers for headaches are cheese fizzy drinks and processed meats so keep afood diary on your phone write down everything you eat when you eat it andwhen you get a headache or a migraine then try and find a correlation andthen eliminate them foods for a month or two now I wouldn't advise you to eliminatea food forever until you consult your doctor and make them aware of this 

now with headaches there are sometimes what we call red flags and these aresymptoms that you should look out for and seek medical attention for nowthere's quite a lot of these and it's going to take me forever to explain on  video for you so what I will do is leave a full list in the description below and I'd advise everyone to read it and that's the end of this week's video headaches and never nice and I really hope my tips help you also if you haveany of your own tips leave a comment below for everyone else see you next week we all get headaches and the vast majority of them are nothing really to..

 tip number one now you may work ten hours a week ten hours a day (Laughter) hey guys thanks for reading this week's article make sure to click that like follow or subscribe button now to stay up to date with Amazing facts.