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The following foods are known to trigger headaches in many patients. Kindly be aware of them when you chart your headaches with the headache calendar.
Allow 4 - 24 hours for food to trigger headache.
- Nuts
- Pizza
- Onions
- Raisins
- Papayas
- Herring
- Avocado
- Chocolate
- Canned figs
- Peanut butter
- Chinese foods
- Chicken livers
- Sour cream and yogurt
- Vinegar (except white vinegar)
- Seeds (sunflower, sesame, pumpkin, etc.)
- Bananas (no more than half a banana per day).
- Anything that is fermented, pickled or marinated.
- Pods of broad beans (lima, navy, pinto, garbanzo and pea)
- Any foods containing large amounts of monosodium glutamate (MSG).
- Excessive tea, coffee and cola beverages. No more than two (2) cups total per day.
- Citrus fruit (no more than one serving per day: one orange; one grapefruit; one glass of orange juice).
- Fermented sausage (processed meats such as bologna, salami, pepperoni, summer sausage, hot dogs and ham).
- Hot fresh breads, raised coffee cakes and raised doughnuts (these are permitted if they are allowed to cool -- toast is permitted.)
- Ripened cheeses such as Cheddar, Emmentaler, Gruyer, Stilton, Brie and Camembert (cheeses that are permitted include American, cottage, cream and
Velveeta)
NOTE: Avoid all alcoholic beverages, if possible. If you must drink, no more than two (2) normal size drinks. Suggested drinks include Haute Sauterne
Riesling, Seagram's V.O., Cutty Sark, Vodka.
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