by Dr Robbins | Jun 24, 2012 | Headache Drugs
As the summer continues to heat up, it’s important to stay hydrated. Federal guidelines suggest an extra 8 to 16 ounces of fluid before exercise, 4 to 8 ounces every 20 minutes during exercise, and an extra 16 ounces for each pound lost during a workout. It is...
by Dr Robbins | Jun 20, 2012 | Headache Drugs
What do we mean by “chronic migraine”?? Episodic migraine is migraine that occurs less than 15 days a month; less than 15 days a month of any sort of headache. Episodic migraine may be 1, 2, 6,9 headaches a month, but certainly not daily or most days. Most...
by Dr Robbins | Jun 20, 2012 | Headache Drugs
Does chocolate trigger headaches? Most likely every food can trigger a headache for someone, and certainly chocolate can trigger for some people. Frederick G. Freitag, DO, FAHS, medical director at Baylor University Medical Center’s Comprehensive Headache Center...
by Dr Robbins | Jun 19, 2012 | Headache Drugs
Results from a three year study recently presented at the Sleep 2012 Conference in Boston indicate that a lack of sleep and higher stroke risk may be connected to one another. Adults who routinely get less than 6 hours of sleep a night are 4 times more likely to...
by Dr Robbins | Jun 18, 2012 | Headache Drugs
The age of 16 seems to be the age when teens are most likely to start experimenting with prescription pain medications. Close to 140,000 teens and young adults, aged 12 to 21 years participated in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Results showed that one in...
