Amy's Kitchen

popcorn and headaches

Dance4Life's picture
Posted April 17th, 2007 by Dance4Life
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I noticed that after eating a certain amount of popcorn, i always get bad headaches.  I am trying to look into what ingredients could cause this....

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mona's picture
On April 23rd, 2007 mona said:

I would actually recommend drinking lots of water.  Popcorn (depending on which kind you buy- microwave etc.) has a lot of salt so it can actually dehydrate you.

rickster81's picture
On April 29th, 2007 rickster81 said:

i grind my teeth at night when i sleep, which puts a certain amount of stress on my masseter muscle... often i wake up with a headache, but generally it goes away after a few hours.

sometimes it bad and i take something for it (ibuprofin).... but i don't chew gum very often and noticed that when i have particularly chewey food (carrots) or when munching on popcorn (could be munchin on a bag for 10-20 minutes) that i can develop a headache...

so i'm wondering if you also might grind/clench your teeth and you headaches are caused by that and not by any ingredients in the popcorn itself....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masseter_muscle

just a thought

-rick

Dance4Life's picture
On April 30th, 2007 Dance4Life said:

Thanks for your comments -

I'll definitely think about both of these as possibilities!

DGutier153's picture
On March 20th, 2008 DGutier153 said:

do you ever put anything on your popcorn.  Consider an allergy or sometimes certain foods will trigger a migraine.