Headache itself is no ordinary suffering for you and to have an adjective before it, like allergy is a double tragedy! A long term plan and a strict disciplined life with reference to all your activities is needed to combat allergy headache. Slightest mistake on your part in breaking the discipline will give you lots of sufferings. It will take some time for you to decide what you are actually allergic to, and your body will not accept anything beyond, once you draw the dividing line!

Please remember, allergy shots will not give you permanent cure, and you very well know it. In a moment of desperation, just to get rid of the suffering any how, for the time being, such shots are the accepted mode. After all, what are these allergy shots? They do not contain any magic potion. They actually contain a very small amount of the stuff that you are allergic to.

The question again is - what you are allergic to? It may be dust, sawdust, smoke or any other fine particles! It may be any type of food. It is better you have a detailed discussion with your doctor and he will help you figure out what foods and climatic conditions are detrimental to your system.

These are hard times of pollution. Don't think that you are indoors and you are safe from allergy headache. There are many indoor pollutants that may be causing your headache, unknowingly! You may catch allergy just when you start the desert cooler - an invisible cloud of dust has entered your system through nostrils! There are many air-borne, invisible substances, through which you may suffer from allergy headache.

You go for a morning walk, with the hope of filling your lungs with fresh oxygen! A truck passes across you and the emission of carbon dioxide has irritated you. By the time you return home, you already have the headache. The stench from the passing garbage truck may cause you serious problems of allergy. Similarly if you pass across an industrial area, second hand smoke, volatile organic compounds, carbon monoxide, the flying ash, chemical discharge from the factories, may all initiate allergy headache to you.

Developing enough resistance power in your inner system is only the permanent cure for your allergy headache! With proper disposition on all fronts, and with utmost care, allergy headache can definitely be beaten!

WFRV News in Haddenfield, NJ reports on the connection between allergies and migraine headaches:

"If you do have nasal allergies, you're actually 14.3 times more likely to have migraine headaches than a person without nasal allergies," says Dr. Min Ku.

Excess histamine, the chemical released by immune cells during allergic reactions, may cause migraine headaches.

"We think that when nasal allergies occur, a lot of that histamine here can trigger that very first response in the development of migraine headaches, namely vasodilation," says Dr. Ku.

Vasodilation is when blood vessels swell up and stretch.

Dr. Ku concludes, "Our experience has been that if we treat the nasal allergies aggressively, that often times the migraine headaches get a lot better."

Dr. Ku says many allergy patients are diagnosed with sinus headaches when they really have migraines.