Sunspots affect geomagnetic fields, but what they have to do with migraines? Are there such things as solar flares migraines?
Geomagnetic activity
It has long been recognized that the Earth's magnetic field affects life on our planet. The magnetic field is not always the same, though. It varies in intensity. Sometimes it is stronger. At other times, it is weaker. These variations are called geomagnetic activity, or GMA. A large part of the GMA is influenced by the sun, in particular by solar flares.
Geomagnetic activity is divided by four levels:
1. calm
2. unknown
3. active
4. stormy
Geomagnetic activity and your health
After a relatively recent studies changes in geomagnetic activity can affect cardiovascular health. There is reason to believe that GMA, especially solar flares can affect other areas of health as well.
Solar flares and migraine
An observation link GMA and migraine found that severe migraine can be seen in hospitals on days of high GMA. This means that when solar flares active or stormy influence levels of geomagnetic activity, doctors and nurses to patients with severe migraine headaches, there to prepare for treatment.
The ratio of solar flares and migraine is strong. It has been shown that there are significant correlation between the two. An interesting study of this correlation is given in the following article: Kuritzky, A., Y. Zoldo, R. Hering, E. Stoupel (1987). Geomagnetic activity
and the severity of the migraine attack, Headache February 1987, pp 87-89.
Stoupel, E., et al. (1989)
Migraines can be triggered by a variety of internal and external stimuli. For some migraine sufferers, it may be caffeine, chocolate or red wine. For others, it could stress or the let-down period, follows on the heels of stress. Many suffer from migraine say that weather is a major trigger for them. It could be a storm here on earth, or solar flares, a storm on the sun. When they keep diaries, the sides give their migraines to model the weather, or solar flares.
Possibly, but Unproven
While researchers are admitting that it does have a link between solar flares and migraine is not yet the evidence clear. Of those who consider migraine to do diaries,
When Dr. Patricia B. Prince and their colleagues at Boston Children's Hospital set out to examine the relationship between headaches and weather, they found that patients often believe weather was triggering your migraine headaches. However, if patients migraine diary, which was detected in only about 20 percent of the cases maintained. Dr. Prince and her team believe that at least some migraine sufferers may find their memories for a likely trigger selectively remember only the attacks, to support their prior beliefs.
This author read a personal account on the internet story of a man who was watching television one evening, because not the slightest hint of a migraine. The news anchor announced a forecast of intensified solar flares and warning migraine sufferers, the solar flares and migraine come hand in hand.
Sure enough, wrote the TV viewers. Soon after I got a terrible migraine solar flares.
Conclusion of the Matter
Solar flares have shown that interfere in the human body. There is no doubt. Whether solar flares is the cause of migraine is not yet proven, but there are some indications that they may be triggered at least some individuals.
be the solution for you, can pay attention to your own sensitivity to solar flares. Keep a migraine journal solar flares, the inclusion of the onset and duration of each headache. Not keep track of solar flares, which can be used as trigger this self-fulfilling expectations of migraine. After a headache over, go back and check whether solar flares, when it began. If you can not trust himself not to look ahead, that someone objectively review the information for you.
If you and your doctor will pay attention to your journal, it can help you prevent the occurrence of solar flares associated with migraine headaches.
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