While many of us are looking forward to the coming of summer, others may be more comfortable in the current temperatures.
A recent study on migraine sufferers, provided by a team of Harvard researchers, have linked higher temperatures to an increase of migraines. The study examined 7,000 patients and tried to find a correlation of weather changes and the impact it had on their migraines. The study used monitors which measured change in temperature, barometric pressure, humidity, and various particles such as carbon and sulfur dioxide to measure pollution factors.
It is one of the first in depth studies that have provided direct evidence of linkage of environmental factors to migraine headaches. It concluded every 5 degree Celsius temperature increase (9 degrees Fahrenheit for us Americans), there is an 7.5 percentage increase of risk within the following 2 or 3 days of getting a migraine. Pollution and humidity did not seem to be significant in the increase of migraines in this study.
Even though, this is one factor that one has no control over, sufferers can prevent a uncomfortable episode by taking medications ahead of time. Prevention in health is always the best way to live a healthy life.
Also, People's Pharmacy has this and various answered questions on readers' concerned on migraines and use of vitamins.
And as for those who are concerned about increased temperatures on the long run, here's a blog of one of my classmates (Dlopeznyc) on Global Warming.
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