Headaches in any form are always very painful for the sufferer. However, some headaches, such as migraines, for example, can create even more problems than just a headache. These problems could be sickness, light sensitivity and a banging pain in the head. Sometimes the headache is felt on one side of the head, although at other times you can feel the pain on both sides of your head at the same time.

The actual causes of migraine headaches has not yet been discovered, although there are some theories why people have 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 speculate that neuropeptides ease 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 inflammation, pain, sensitivity, tissue and blood vessel swelling during the time of migraine headaches. Some people think that the aura that is sometimes seen during a migraine headache is caused by the constriction of blood vessels that became dilated during the beginning phase of the migraine headache.

Another theory about the reason for migraine headaches has been associated with the genetics of inheritance. These theories say that a child of migraine sufferers will have a 50% chance of getting migraine headaches too.

The chances of having migraine headaches becomes even greater if both parents are sufferers from this painful sort of headache. If both parents have frequent migraine headaches the chances of the child having migraine headache symptoms rises to about 70%.

Now even though many professionals think that inheritance 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 sickness.

As the symptoms of the migraine progresses, the pain becomes much more severe. Unfortunately, since the causes of migraine headaches have yet to be found and we don’t know what triggers these attacks, there are no medications to cure this sort of headaches yet.

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