There are many things that people don't know about headaches.
Most people believe that taking painkillers will cure their headaches.
Unknowingly, taking painkillers will only relieve the pain in their head and ,again unknowingly, taking too much painkillers will soon be the cause of their headaches.
If you want to cure your headaches successfully, you should first clear from your mind the belief that headaches can be cured directly.
Keep in mind that headaches cannot be treated directly because headaches are just cause by other illness existing inside your body or in short, headaches are just symptoms.
Not only that, headaches are also caused by certain foods that you eat, so it can be assumed that headaches are caused by allergic reactions to certain things or substances.
And lastly, for migraine headache sufferers, headaches can also be caused by trigger factors in the environment.
When we say that headaches are just symptoms, this is the result given by other sicknesses inside our body.
It can be caused by too much pressure, stress, sinus infections, blood clot, digestive problems and other illnesses that cause headaches.
So the best way to deal with these kinds of headaches is to treat the illness that is causing it.
So if sinus infection is causing it, take medicines that will cure sinus infections and not painkillers.
If you suspect that that there are certain foods in your diet that is causing your headaches, then try avoiding them.
This will immediately prevent the pain in your head from recurring.
The easiest way to discover the food that is causing your headaches is to keep a food diary.
You write down the list of foods that you ate for the day and keep track if your headache will start upon eating certain foods.
Soon you will discover what is causing your headaches and will be able to prevent them.
For migraine headaches, usually they are triggered by factors happening within your environment and also from the food you eat, which was discussed earlier.
This could come from changes in temperature, noise, bright light, changes in pressure, scent, allergens and other factors that would trigger a pain in your head.
Avoiding these trigger factors is the only way to prevent migraine headaches, although there are medicines for migraine headaches, it is still best to find the cause and remedy the problem.
Knowing these facts may seem new to you but it is the truth.
It may be hard to accept at first but once you start believing and start looking for the real causes of your headaches, you will soon start preventing them or minimizing their occurrence without taking any painkillers.