Migraine Headaches’ Causes
Headaches of any type 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 nausea, 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.
The real causes of migraine headaches has yet to be found, although there are some theories why people experience migraine headaches. The most commonly held belief is that a change 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 relax 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 cause swelling, pain, sensitivity, tissue and blood vessel inflammation during the time of the migraine headaches. Some 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 starting period of the migraine headache.
Another theory as to the reason for migraine headaches has been associated with the genetics of inheritance. These theories state that a child of migraine sufferers will have a 50% probability of getting migraine headaches as well.
The chances of having migraine headaches becomes even greater if both parents are sufferers of this painful sort of headache. If both parents have frequent migraine headaches the chances of the child having migraine headache symptoms is about 70%.
Now even though many professionals think that genetics plays a large role 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 nausea.
As the symptoms of your migraine progress, the pain of the headaches become much worse. Unfortunately, since the causes of migraine headaches have not been found and we don’t know what triggers these attacks, there are no medications to cure these headaches yet.