As we mentioned in previous article, premenstrual syndrome effects over 70 of women before menopause in US and less for women in Southeast Asia because of their diet.It is defined as faulty function of ovaries related to women menstrual cycle, it effects the women physical and emotional state and sometimes interference with daily activities as resulting of hormone fluctuation. The syndrome happens in one or two weeks before menstruation and then declining when the period starts. In this article, we will discuss what causes headache and migraine for women with PMS.
Migraine headache and headche are the most common symptoms of PMS, they effect about 15% of population and just before or on the days of period. While headache does not accompany with symptoms, migraine usually followed by series of symptoms.
1. Serotonin
Serotonin besides secreted by the pituitary gland when we come to stress, it is also secreted during migraine attack. The level of serotonin effects the blood vessels in the brain causing irritation to the nervous system resulting in swelling the brain's blood vessels that causes pain last for hours.
2. Allergic reaction
For what whatever reasons, some women with pre menstrual syndrome may be sensitive to food such as daily products, peanut, etc just before period causing migraine headache. It may be caused by inability of digestive system in foods digestion that causes some food particle being leak into bloodstream and immune reaction.
3. Estrogen
Research believe that migraine may be caused by high levels of estrogen and low levels of progesterone because the symptom of migraine headache before period is gone when the woman becomes pregnant.
4. Medication
Some medication such as bromocriptine uses to reduce levels of prolactin for women with breast pain before period may cause headache and migraine because of it's side effects.
5. Magnesium deficiency
Magnesium beside helps to regulate the levels of blood sugar, it also helps to stop the blood vessels spam, because it reduces the risk of blood vessels around the brain to constrict, then dilate during migraine attack.
