What are the dietary precautions for vascular headache

Vascular headache is a troublesome disease for most patients because the recovery process of this disease is extremely slow and the treatment effect takes time to show, which causes many patients to give up treatment. In fact, these problems are very easy to solve. Strengthening dietary management is very important for recovery. Let’s take a look at the dietary precautions for vascular headaches.

1. Spicy food

Spicy foods can stimulate the body to produce heat, speed up blood flow, and worsen headaches. Therefore, you should eat less or avoid spicy foods such as chili peppers, chili oil, ginger, curry, mustard, pepper, etc.

2. High-Tyramine Foods

Since the occurrence of this disease is related to the decrease in monoamine oxidase activity in platelets, after eating high-tyramine foods (such as cheese, smoked fish, etc.), the amino acids are not easily decomposed, but instead promote the synthesis of prostaglandins, thereby causing strong dilation of extracranial blood vessels and inflammatory reactions, inducing headaches.

3. Wine and alcoholic beverages

Ethanol, the main component of alcohol, can enter the brain through the blood circulation, damage the intima of cerebral arteries, stimulate the excitement of brainstem neurons and the release of neurotransmitters, thereby inducing or aggravating the disease. According to traditional Chinese medicine, excessive drinking can easily damage the spleen and stomach, causing the spleen to lose its healthy function, phlegm and dampness to form internally, which will block the clear yang and cause phlegm-dampness headaches. If the phlegm and dampness are contained and turn into fire, it will disturb the clear yang and cause liver-fire headaches. Excessive fire will damage yin, causing yin and blood deficiency, which cannot nourish the brain, and can lead to blood deficiency headaches. Therefore, drinking can aggravate the condition, so people with headaches should quit drinking.

4. High-fat foods

High-fat foods can cause lipid metabolism disorders and arteriosclerosis: part of systemic arteriosclerosis, and also the main cause of acute cerebral blood circulation, especially cerebral ischemia. It is a general term for degeneration and hardening of the cerebral artery wall caused by various factors), thereby causing abnormal cerebrovascular function and inducing migraine attacks.