Headaches from hunger during a diet

1 Theories of the occurrence of a headache from hunger

The characteristic signs of a headache during fasting are as follows:

• weak pain sensations that do not have a specific site of localization;
• pain starts from the forehead and spreads over the entire head;
• no pulsating pain.

There are several theories of the occurrence of such pain:

1. Cleansing the body of accumulated slag and salts. This version is followed by lovers of the so-called "health" starvation. They believe that in this way a natural process of purification and discharge of the human body takes place.
2. Stress state. With prolonged starvation, the human body experiences tremendous stress. The human brain does not receive the necessary nutrition and raises panic. Headache can occur when the body lacks nutrients or when they are running out.
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3. Lack of sweetness. There is another theory based on the undeniable facts that the brain works from glucose. Accordingly, if a person for a long time does not fill the supply of glucose in the body, the headache of the brain alerts the person about this. In fact, it is rather a myth. Lack of glucose in the body can cause not only a headache. A person can faint, experience dizziness, or decrease attention.

Actually, specialists still do not have an unambiguous answer to the question of why the headache is hurting from hunger. This can happen for some reason unknown to the person, but everyone can learn to fight headaches.

2 Proper nutrition

The first thing to pay attention to is not drug treatment methods and options for preventing pain.

It is possible to eliminate pain by observing a certain diet if you follow the following recommendations:

1. Try to revise the current diet to a more gentle option. Perhaps you have too sharply abandoned the nutrients your body needs and can not make up for it. It is best to eat the usual food for your stomach, but to reduce the size of portions.
2. Consume more liquid. Many doctors say that people often confuse thirst with a feeling of hunger. Therefore, everyone who "sits" on a particular diet, it is necessary to drink a glass of water when you feel hungry. If after that you still want to eat, it's worth a snack, and not overeat.
3. Consume more protein food. If the work does not allow you to eat properly, make sure that there is more protein in the diet. It is digested longer than all the rest of the food, and you do not have to experience a painful sense of hunger. You can have a snack later than usual, having filled up the necessary reserve of forces and energy.
4. Keep on hand the products for a snack. It can be all sorts of cereal products. It will be most convenient to carry a pack of nuts with you. They will quickly give strength and will help get rid of hunger.
5. Do not use chocolate for snacks. It does not contain the products of body satiety, but only for a short while dulls the feeling of hunger, after which it comes back with renewed vigor, since chocolate raises the pressure and intensifies the pain in the vessels.
6. Try to eat often, but in small portions. This method will not only relieve headaches, but also will not let you gain excess weight.

3 Pain relief with massage

In Japanese practice, there are several ways of acupressure to get rid of a headache. Its effect is manifested after 15-20 minutes.

Exercises can be the following:

1. Trimming the collar zone. To do this, you can ask for help from relatives, and you can do with improvised means. Take a towel and start rubbing their neck and shoulders. With such simple manipulations, you can accelerate the flow of blood to the brain, which will significantly reduce the pain.
2. Gently massage the palm of the forehead area and gradually move to the back of the head.
3. With your thumb, rub the dot between the eyebrows. When rubbing, there may be superficial pain sensations, but this is normal.

4 Drug treatment

To medical treatment of a "hungry" headache should be resorted only as a last resort. First it is necessary to have a good meal and rest in the fresh air or arrange a 15-minute break with a massage. In the event that the pain does not pass after eating, you can take pills. But the difficulty is that this is not an ordinary bunt pain associated with constriction or dilatation of the cerebral vessels, which means that the tablets here are not suitable any.

Analgesics, sold without a doctor's prescription, are suitable for removing such pain. Choose those tablets that contain paracetamol or metamizole sodium. You can find them in the following preparations:

• baralgin;
• analgin;
• Panadol;
• efferlangan.

The following drugs are not suitable:

1. Spasmolytic. This group of drugs is aimed at getting rid of the pain in the vessels of the brain caused by spasms.
2. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. The risk of taking such drugs is that it can be extremely harmful to your stomach and the body as a whole. You can take them only by prescription and only after meals to avoid the appearance of ulcers. But to remove the headache from starvation, these funds are not suitable.

So, summing up, I would like to note that full-fledged food plays a very big role in human life. This is the guarantee of health and psychological comfort. After all, poor health and psychological imbalance, associated with discomfort during pain, affects both work and personal life.

5 How to starve

However, it is not necessary to exclude completely "out-of-work" days from your life. One two-day fasting can be useful to everyone. The main thing is to approach it thoughtfully. Replace regular products with frequent water intake. A day without food your body can well hold. It will be more difficult to prepare for this psychologically, because the brain gets used to a certain time of eating, and when food does not enter the body, it reacts to it.

To start starving is also gradually, as well as to get out of it. Approximately from a dinner before day of fasting costs a little to cut the diet and to consume less high-calorie food. But the next morning the body will be ready for a full "unloading" day.

After a day of fasting, breakfast is also worth starting with a light meal. You can eat muesli with skim milk or porridge cooked on the water. Do not forget that there is still no need to overeat. Eat often, but in small portions.

With great caution, it is worth treating such "hunger strikes" if there are problems with the liver or stomach.

In general, starvation within reasonable limits provokes the body and its cells to search for nutrients within themselves. During such search operations, salts, slag and other hazardous food waste products are stored in the body.

The main thing in any case is not to suffer a headache, even if it seems that it does not cause a great discomfort. The head and heart are the organs with which you should not joke in any way and whose signals should not be neglected. If none of the traditional remedies help, immediately take the pills. But with impassable pain, it is best to consult a specialist. You may need to undergo a diagnostic examination before you resume fasting or a diet.