Migraine Headaches’ Causes
Headaches of any kind are always painful to the sufferer. However, some headaches, like migraines, for instance, can create 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 not yet been found, although there are some theories why we experience migraine headaches. The most common theory 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 it could possibly be caused by pain sensing chemicals called neuropeptides.
Many medical professionals think that neuropeptides relax the smooth muscle that surrounds the cranial blood vessels. This relaxation causes the blood vessels to dilate. This blood vessel relaxation increases 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 swelling, pain, sensitivity, tissue and blood vessel swelling 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 phase of the migraine headache.
Another theory about the causes of migraine headaches has been linked to the genetics of inheritance. These theories state that a child of migraine sufferers will have a 50% chance of having migraine headaches too.
The probability of having migraine headaches becomes even greater if both parents are sufferers of this painful sort of headache. If both parents are known to have frequent migraine headaches the chances of the child inheriting migraine headache symptoms is about 70%.
Now even though many professionals think that genetics 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 nausea.
As the symptoms of the migraine progresses, the pain becomes much worse. Unfortunately, since the causes of migraine headaches have not been discovered and we don’t know what triggers these attacks, there are no medications to cure this type of headaches yet.