YouTube Clip of Last Week: “How To Fight a Summer Migraine”
Whoops. I forgot to do a “YouTube Clip of the Week” last week, so I’m making it up now. Fortunately, the information in this clip is good for all of the summer weeks of the year, depending on where you live. For migraine sufferers, heat and humidity make life particularly miserable — well, come to think of it, heat and humidity can make ANYONE miserable, but not everyone has migraines to look forward to when the summer gets particularly nasty.
“How to Fight a Summer Migraine” focuses on UK migraineurs and how to avoid migraine triggers, but the information given is applicable to almost any country in the world where there’s both migraineurs and high heat. The clip mentions that blood sugar levels may play a role in migraine triggers. That’s a new one for me, but it does make some kind of sense, so I’ll be looking into that in more detail in a future article.
In case the link doesn’t work when you click it, here is a quick summary of the recommendations on how to fight a summer migraine:
- Avoid going outside if you can
- Eat something every three hours in the daytime and every 12 hours at night
- Take any painkillers, even over the counter painkillers, as soon as possible when you realize that a migraine attack is coming
- Avoid getting too much or too little sleep (both of which is tempting to do on vacations). Make your sleep pattern as regular as possible
- Try to relax
- Don’t be afraid to ask other migraineurs for help
Hope this helps.
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