Can Eating Chocolate Cause Headaches

Can Eating Chocolate Cause Headaches is a very commonly asked question and this web page gives the best answer available in the scientific world











The answer has to be yes because some people get a headache/migraine after they eat chocolate and some people have been diagnosed as having an allergy to chocolate, and on giving up eating chocolate the headaches have disappeared.

What is much harder to answer is why? Indeed the scientists have not yet been able to answer it. They know a little. They know that caffeine and tyramine contained in chocolate may restrict blood flow.

They know that cocoa, an ingredient of chocolate may repress inflammatory responses in the brain that are associated with pain and could be useful to migraine sufferers.

Phenylethylamine, a chemical in cocoa is a mood and memory enhancer and reliever of stress and may have an effect on relieving headaches. However, there is not enough cocoa in chocolate to prevent or relieve headaches

The best advice is eat chocolate if it does not give you a headache and, if it does, eat the chocolate anyway and take some pain relief tablets



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