IS THERE A CONNECTION BETWEEN ASTHMA AND MIGRAINES?

Headache specialists have noticed a potential connection between asthmatics and migraine sufferers. Their first clue was simply that many migraine patients were found to  also have asthma. An early study showed that people with the most severe asthma symptoms were at least twice as likely to end up with chronic migraines (15 or more migraines per month). Another similarity that suggests a possible relationship between the two conditions is that they are both inflammatory disorders. Beta blocker medications, often used to prevent migraines, have been known to worsen symptoms of asthma, whereas it is very possible that asthma medications used to reduce inflammation may also help keep migraines from becoming chronic.

P.S. Asthma and migraine symptoms can vary from one episode to the next and one patient to the next, and both have allergic triggers and are more common in women than in men.

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