ReviewNeurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology2012
Alcohol as a dietary trigger of primary headaches: what triggering site could be compatible?
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- Association Between Dietary Alcohol Intake and Migraine or Severe Headache Miscellaneous Pain: The NHANES 1999-2004.Brain and behavior · 2025Article
- Characteristics of headaches attributed to SARS-CoV-2 vaccination and factors associated with its frequency and prolongation: a cross-sectional cohort study.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
- Migraine Is More Than Just Headache: Is the Link to Chronic Fatigue and Mood Disorders Simply Due to Shared Biological Systems?Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Review
- Perceptions, experiences, and understandings of cluster headache among GPs and neurologists: a qualitative study.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2020Article
- A Clinical Approach to Addressing Diet with Migraine Patients.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2017Review
- Migraine and triggers: post hoc ergo propter hoc?Current pain and headache reports · 2013Review
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Abstract
Alcoholic drinks (AD) have been known as migraine triggers in about one-third of migraine patients in retrospective studies. We have reviewed the studies concerning the role of AD in triggering the various types of primary headaches published after the International Headache Society classification of 1988. There are many studies showing that AD are triggers of migraine without aura (MO), migraine with aura (MA), cluster headache (CH) and tension-type headache (TH). About one-third of MO and half of CH patients reported AD as trigger factors. Some studies show that AD are triggers in MA and TH in a similar percentage to that found in MO, but there are also discordant findings. There are sparse reports that AD are also triggers of less frequent types of primary headache such as familial hemiplegic migraine, hemicrania continua and paroxysmal hemicrania. The mechanism of alcohol-provoking headache is debated and should be compatible with the principal pathogenetic theories of primary headaches. If AD are capable of triggering practically all primary headaches, they should act at a common pathogenetic level. Vasodilatation is unlikely to be compatible as common mechanism. An action at cortical or more likely at subcortical level is plausible.
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