“What to drink for a headache?” - women with migraines ask on the Internet, which prevents them from working and living a normal life. In search of magic pills for headaches, they don’t know: to avoid headaches, it’s better not to drink or eat anything at all. Refusal of which foods helps with headaches, says blogger Dr. Regina.
Headaches plague women during nervous overstrain, stress, overwork, as a manifestation of premenstrual syndrome, and lack of sleep. Sometimes they develop into a disease that has a detailed clinical picture - migraine. The throbbing pain usually occurs on one side, near the temples, forehead and eyes.
Migraines can make you very sensitive to light, sound, or even mild physical activity such as climbing stairs or brisk walking. For many people, migraines are accompanied by nausea, vomiting, or decreased vision.
The condition of the blood vessels in the brain plays an important role in the occurrence of headaches. There are triggers (causes) that activate migraine through a vascular response. Many patients who have lived with migraine for a long time notice that it begins after eating certain foods.
I will name two triggers, by eliminating which you will feel improvement, relief and complete disappearance of headaches. These are sugar and caffeine.
The effect of the drink on the body - dizziness
Coffee contains caffeine, which is why it has such effects on the body. It can be both positive and negative.
An important condition that must be observed without exception is dosage. When a product is consumed without restrictions, the positive qualities of this product will disappear.
Thanks to the caffeine content in the drink, that same cheerfulness and energy boost occurs. Most people value this quality so much in it, without even thinking about the dangers of use.
Why does a person experience a surge of strength and other sensations? Caffeine is a weak narcotic substance. This is what allows a person to feel such euphoria, energy and vigor.
The danger is that, like any other drug, coffee can be addictive. Such people are called coffee lovers. This course of circumstances can no longer be considered normal.
Headache and dizziness - what are the reasons? Such people can no longer imagine their life without this miracle drink. At the same time, a regular cup of coffee in the morning does not stop them.
The drink, due to caffeine, does provide a certain boost, but it is fleeting and after a while you again feel a loss of strength.
Over time, coffee drinkers are forced to increase the dosage to maintain this state. As a result, they begin to experience symptoms such as dizziness, nausea, etc.
Caffeine has different effects on the body. The following observations from people who drink the drink are especially pronounced:
- Breathing becomes easier, the desire to breathe deeply and do “great” things appears.
- Embraces clarity and sanity.
- A surge of strength is felt, which means a person’s performance increases several times.
- The product makes you feel hungry. Therefore, after drinking a drink, the appetite usually wakes up, and the person absorbs a lot of food.
To understand why you feel dizzy after drinking, and how this is related to the drink, you need to understand its effect on certain organs.
Why is coffee dangerous after a stroke?
Caffeine stimulates nervous processes and increases blood pressure, which is extremely dangerous for stroke patients. This also applies to instant drinks - they contain much more caffeine than natural ones.
So is it possible to drink coffee after a stroke?
In the first time after a stroke, coffee should be completely excluded from the diet of a recovering person. Treatment with medications and physical procedures also do not go well with this drink. Only later, when your health status has stabilized, can you introduce caffeine into the menu, but this should be done only after consultation with your doctor and with extreme caution.
What do the doctor's say?
If remission after the disease goes well, the doctor will most likely allow the recovering patient to return some foods to the diet, including a drink made from coffee beans.
However, you can drink it only if the following conditions are met:
- It is allowed to drink weak coffee diluted with cream or milk. Lemon is also a good caffeine neutralizer (but you can’t add milk in this case, otherwise it will curdle).
- The best option for people who have suffered a stroke would be Arabica beans - they contain less active substance than varieties with Robusta.
- It is especially not recommended to drink espresso: it contains too high a concentration of the active substance.
- If unpleasant symptoms appear (dizziness, pain, nausea, etc.), you should immediately stop drinking the drink.
- You should start with small doses - no more than 1 cup per day, but use should be regular, since the body thus becomes resistant to caffeine, and the pressure subsequently increases very little.
- It is best to drink coffee after breakfast, not on an empty stomach.
- A decaffeinated drink should be administered as carefully as a classic drink, since it also contains the active substance, although in a lower concentration, which means there is a risk of increasing blood pressure.
To the delight of coffee lovers, recent medical studies have proven that coffee beans help prevent many diseases, including reducing the risk of stroke and heart attack. However, even the healthiest product can be dangerous if consumed in excess. Therefore, if you observe moderation, even after a stroke you can regularly treat yourself to your favorite drink.
The effect of the drink on the cardiovascular system
Heart and vascular diseases themselves are dangerous. And if you add coffee to them, then this is a kind of “explosion” inside the body. The effect of the drink on this system cannot be called positive.
Coffee poses the greatest danger to heart patients. People suffering from vascular problems are also not recommended to use this product.
What effect does the product have on blood vessels and the heart, and why do you feel dizzy? First of all, it should be noted that caffeine can cause vascular spasms.
They have to narrow and the blood cannot circulate as it should. As a result of this, the heart begins to beat at an increased frequency.
He needs to do hard work to carry blood to other organs.
A rapid heartbeat can no longer be called something positive. People begin to experience discomfort, which causes dizziness, nausea, pallor, weakness, heart and headache.
If you drink coffee on an empty stomach, you will not only experience dizziness, but also severe nausea, which can result in a gag reflex, and also a headache.
With a strong and negative impact on the body, even a short-term loss of consciousness occurs.
People experiencing such symptoms after drinking coffee should not consider this to be the norm. If there are no other reasons, then it is enough to stop drinking this drink for the unpleasant symptoms to disappear.
When people do not suffer from heart and vascular diseases, they are allowed to drink small amounts of coffee in the morning. You need to follow the rules and not go beyond these limits.
When a person does everything to provoke an illness, this will not lead to good things. At first there is pain and dizziness, and later other symptoms will be added.
Well, if a person already has a weakness in part of the system and organs, then a ban on coffee is mandatory. Of course, everything depends on the patient himself.
When life is dear to him, he will not play with it. The main problem is that the drink can lead to a heart attack or stroke.
Another cause of migraine - and what to do about it
I want to pay attention to another cause of migraine - psychosomatic. Migraine is tension. Tension is stress, it is a deficiency of happiness hormones and an excess of stress hormones.
If you have been suffering from migraines for a long time, consult a psychotherapist. Speak out all the unexpressed emotions, all the accumulated feelings, find your true desires, do not be afraid of them and begin to realize them. Living on pills is a big burden on the liver and it only hides symptoms without finding the cause.
Together with my nutrition recommendations, start changing your lifestyle.
- Add dancing —dance movement therapy has shown excellent results in treating migraines.
- Learn to meditate - there are techniques that simply turn off the pain, better than any drug.
- Play sports - the hormone endorphin, produced during physical activity, itself has a powerful pain-relieving effect. There are exercise therapy and yoga classes that show good effects and are widely used in rehabilitation medicine.
- Sometimes the cause of a headache is a spasm of the neck vessels, which we have due to a forced position at work or while driving. It is enough just to stretch certain muscles - the spasm will disappear and the headache will go away. The simplest exercise is to stretch upward with the top of your head and down with the toes of your feet while lying down.
- Massage of the head, back and body works for the same reasons - it eliminates spasm, relaxes muscles and the pain goes away.
- If migraine persists, be sure to consult a neurologist for an examination.
At the same time, we see from 10 to 15 people with complaints of migraine. From my experience, I can say for sure that nutrition really changes the state and quality of life. The number and intensity of attacks is reduced until symptoms disappear completely. It's worth it.
Coffee drink and head
The heart and brain are perhaps the main organs found in the human body. To understand why you feel dizzy after drinking a drink, you need to know about its effect on the brain.
The product stimulates brain receptors. The commands that are called by the brain, after drinking a drink, one way or another begin to be distorted and reshaped.
The main substance produced by the brain is adenosine. It is a neurotransmitter that is produced continuously every day.
The only thing that can influence its production is the human condition. That is, when he is asleep or awake. When a person needs rest, adenosine slows down the action of brain neurons.
It also affects the blood vessels that supply the brain. When it attaches to brain receptors, the same blood vessels dilate.
During rest, neurons are abundantly saturated with oxygen. This work is again performed by adenosine.
When a person drinks coffee, this substance is replaced by caffeine. Although they are similar in structure, they have different effects. Caffeine keeps the brain from falling asleep.
A person constantly experiences cheerfulness, which is completely abnormal. At this moment, the blood vessels narrow very much, which causes dizziness and an intense headache.
If you drink coffee, you need to do it correctly. In no case should the dosage be large.
You can consume no more than three mugs per day. And it is advisable to do this in the first half of the day after eating.
Problems with sleep may not occur immediately, but this will certainly happen if the intake is carried out uncontrolled.
Even at night, caffeine causes excessive brain activity.
When your head hurts and feels dizzy, what reasons can cause these symptoms? A person cannot calm down, his brain does not receive signals about the necessary rest, and as a result, severe exhaustion begins.
Such an influence cannot but affect the general condition. At a minimum, people begin to complain that they feel dizzy after drinking coffee or have a headache.
Caffeine also affects the pituitary gland. In this regard, hormones begin to be actively produced. They go to the adrenal glands, from where adrenaline is released in large quantities.
Everything that happens causes the following symptoms:
- Frequent breathing.
- Excessively fast heart rate. The pulse may simply exceed all norms.
- Mainly, the drink has a serious effect on the condition of blood vessels. The blood in them is redistributed, the main arteries dilate, and a spasm forms in the vessels. In this case, the gastrointestinal tract and skin suffer from a deficiency in the blood.
- The pupils are greatly dilated.
Quitting Sugar: Why Is It So Hard?
It is vital for a patient with migraine to get rid of sugar addiction. But I warn you: when you make the decision to remove all excess sugar from your life, migraine symptoms may increase in the first 5-7 days. This is fine.
There are two reasons. Firstly, the body gets used to constant blood sugar, brain vessels do not experience constant spasms, and blood circulation improves.
Secondly, this is withdrawal. The brain is accustomed to constant surges of dopamine with every bite of sweets. This is a psychological reaction. And your new behavioral reactions - just take and don't eat any more candy - lead to resistance. The brain demands its “drug”, and the condition really resembles withdrawal in drug addicts.
You may experience headaches, weakness, cold sweats, and a feeling of low blood sugar, but if you have an otherwise balanced diet and have a glucometer at home (a device for measuring blood glucose at home), you can easily verify that your blood glucose is normal. This state can last 10–20 minutes. You should not be scared, but try to relax.
Here are some tips on what to do in this condition:
- Turn off the lights.
- Take a horizontal position.
- After this, have a meal that goes further in the diet, or an additional snack.
- Main! In this state, you can’t give your body sweets again . You can't drink sweet tea or even eat dried fruits. It’s like taking a “drug”: the brain never gets rid of the addiction in the “roller coaster” of sugar and dopamine.
- If the headache is intense, it is better to take a painkiller.
The effect of the drink on the male and female body
In men, the effect is mainly on potency. Discussions are still ongoing on this topic. It is impossible to deny or affirm the fact of a negative impact on men's health.
Of course, the woman’s reproductive system also suffers. All harmful substances that enter the body affect the eggs, as they are very susceptible.
Pregnancy is an important event in the life of every mother. Even a cup of coffee in the morning can negatively affect the health of not only the woman, but also the fetus.
Regular and frequent consumption of the drink increases the risk of a small child being born prematurely.
Even when the pregnancy is proceeding normally and nothing can foreshadow trouble, a cup of coffee drink can cancel out many positive aspects.
Firstly, blood pressure rises. Secondly, the uterus becomes toned after drinking coffee.
This indispensable drink of vigor
The stimulating effect of coffee is known to everyone today. It is an indispensable awakening tool for many people. You can often hear that a person cannot wake up without a cup of coffee. This may indicate addiction to the drink.
It's not as bad as alcohol or drug addiction. But, if a person does not drink coffee for some reason for some time, then he may feel dizzy, but this phenomenon quickly passes.
Coffee can also make you feel dizzy if you drink it too much. This occurs if you take more than ten cups per day. Overdose of caffeine may cause symptoms such as:
- insomnia;
- restlessness and irritability;
- dizziness;
- headache.
These symptoms occur due to the influence of certain factors.
Coffee is a product of plant origin. It can have positive and negative effects on the body.
Many people's day starts with a cup of coffee. It helps you get into the mood for work, cheer up, and clear your mind. But is this drink safe? It’s worth finding out.
Many people experience dizziness after coffee. This symptom occurs not only among those who rarely drink this drink, but also among real coffee lovers. Why does this reaction occur? It is worth knowing about the effects of caffeine on the body before you abuse it.
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Sensitivity to caffeine alkaloid
The body's reaction to drinking an invigorating drink is individual. For many people, even a small amount of coffee can cause arrhythmia, headaches, and a general deterioration in well-being. If dizziness occurs after coffee, then it is best to avoid it.
Whether unpleasant discomfort can develop depends on several factors:
- weight is less than normal, the patient will feel the effect of coffee much faster,
- systematic use of an alkaloid leads to an increase in dosage (the harm to the body will be greater),
- It is strictly prohibited to combine caffeine and certain drugs, there is a risk of adverse reactions,
- if the patient rarely consumes invigorating drinks, then the pressure may rise sharply, but this is a short-term phenomenon that quickly passes,
- Stress, anxiety, depression are the main reasons for giving up coffee.
For a full night's rest, a person needs about 7-8 hours. Stimulant drinks in large dosages cause insomnia, which can lead to problems with memory and the nervous system. This is why you should drink coffee 8 hours before going to bed.
Indications and contraindications
Caffeine is present in a number of products: cocoa, chocolate, Coca-Cola. If we compare the table of alkaloid content in tea and coffee drinks, we will see that 100 ml of natural coffee contains 40–65 mg, and the same portion of black tea contains 40–50 mg. In soluble it is less – 30–48 mg. The longer the drink is brewed, the more invigorating substance it will contain.
- drowsiness;
- deterioration in performance (physical and mental);
- headaches of vascular origin;
- migraine;
- low blood pressure.
At the same time, coffee consumption should be limited in old age and during pregnancy. In reviews you can find reports that sometimes doctors prescribe this drink in small quantities to pregnant women for migraines, since it is less harmful than medications.
Caffeine is not recommended for diseases such as atherosclerosis and glaucoma. Contraindicated for insomnia, increased excitability, arterial hypertension.
