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Alcoholic
beverages can act as a potential migraine trigger and it significantly affects
migraine frequency.
According to a
recently published web‐based, cross‐sectional, questionnaire study, alcoholic
beverages, particularly red wine, trigger the migraine and show significant
impact on alcohol consumption behaviour.
A total of 2197
participants with a migraine from the well‐described Leiden University Migraine
Neuro‐Analysis (LUMINA) study population were selected and evaluated for
reasons behind alcohol abstinence, the time between alcohol consumption and
migraine attack onset, alcoholic beverage consumption and self‐reported trigger
potential.
Seven hundred eighty-three
of the participants reported alcohol beverages as a migraine trigger.
Twenty-five per cent of patients stopped consuming alcoholic beverages because
they were aware of fact that drinking alcohol might trigger migraine. Out of
the all alcoholic beverages, red wine found to be the most common trigger as
provoking migraine attack in 77.8% of participants and vodka as the least
prevalent as a trigger only 8.5% of the participants. One-third of the
participants showed rapid (<3 h) time of onset and 90% had a start <10 h
independent of beverage class.
European Journal of Neurology
Alcoholic beverages as trigger factor and the effect on alcohol consumption behavior in patients with migraine
G. L. J. Onderwater et al.
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