If you live with migraine, you’ll be all too familiar with the constant pounding pain of a typical migraine episode and its accompanying symptoms. However, one of those migraine effects can also bring some relief to the agony of a migraine attack: vomiting.
Vomiting and migraine: The 411
Doctors don’t know why vomiting can help relieve some symptoms in folks with nausea and migraine. But they’ve got several theories:
Migraine can slow down normal stomach function. Vomiting may happen as the migraine ends and regular stomach function returns.
If you have nausea, the action of vomiting relieves some of the neurotransmitter imbalance that is part of a migraine episode.
Vomiting stimulates the vagus nerve, which may calm the migraine. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has now approved a new migraine treatment option that…
If you live with migraine, you’ll be all too familiar with the constant pounding pain of a typical migraine episode and its accompanying symptoms. However, one of those migraine effects can also bring some relief to the agony of a migraine attack: vomiting.
Vomiting and migraine: The 411
Doctors don’t know why vomiting can help relieve some symptoms in folks with nausea and migraine. But they’ve got several theories:
Migraine can slow down normal stomach function. Vomiting may happen as the migraine ends and regular stomach function returns.
If you have nausea, the action of vomiting relieves some of the neurotransmitter imbalance that is part of a migraine episode.
Vomiting stimulates the vagus nerve, which may calm the migraine. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has now approved a new migraine treatment option that…