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Possible Causes of Headaches After Eating

July 6th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed

You are off to a good start If you get a headache after eating and are able to make that connection. The first advice I give to anyone suffering from chronic headaches is to keep a diary so you can become familiar with the triggers of your headaches.

These headaches after eating could have a variety of causes, some that may even reveal other medical conditions that you or your doctor may never have considered. For example, you could be allergic to what you ate and the headache is a symptom of the allergic reaction.

How Does Food Cause Headaches?

People in the western world eat a lot of processed foods that are both missing enzymes and nutrients that used to be in them, and contain chemical additives that were not in them before. Pasteurized milk for example doesn’t contain any of the enzymes that the raw milk does. These enzymes would help us digest the milk. Also, I remember having a severe allergic reaction to a cup of instant flavored coffee, and I’m not allergic to anything. I wonder what they put in that coffee?

The chemicals they put in foods are meant to give them a long shelf life, however they are toxic to our body and some people react more obviously to that toxicity. Some people, though, find that they suffer headaches after eating these foods. There are even some natural foods that the general public eats which may cause headaches after eating for some individuals.

The cause of your headache after eating could also be the result of an intolerance to lactose in milk or gluten in wheat. If a person suffers headaches caused by foods it is important to go through a process of elimination. Food allergists can assist a person in eliminating probable food causes one by one from the diet until the guilty foods are found.

Headaches After Eating And Diabetes

Believe it or not, headaches after eating could be caused by improper blood sugar regulation by the body, or diabetes. It is important for a person who gets headaches after eating to rule out the diagnosis of diabetes. The headaches after eating in the case of diabetes are a symptom of high blood sugar. High blood sugar can cause many problems for an individual, the most severe being death.

High blood sugars left untreated can cause blindness, kidney failure, heart disease, high cholesterol, and many other problems. Early intervention in treating diabetes can prevent these problems. Getting headaches after eating can be an early sign that diabetes may be a problem.

Your doctor should definitely be informed if you are getting headaches after eating. Of course, when you share this with your doctor they are going to want to know what you were eating when you got the headache. Make sure you keep a journal of everything you eat and when and when you get headaches. Make entries even when you don’t get headaches.