NO CHINESE FOOD! If you suffer from migraines - Headaches & Migraines Message Board

Mz Migraine · 08-15-2003, 03:07 PM

My Neurologist told me to stop eating chinese food. I said "OK, I'll just deal w/shrimp fried rice". Doc said, "that too"! I was like

Doc stated even though the chinese restaurants/take-outs (no matter how expensive and/or where located) tell you THEY do not use and/or put MSG in their food/cooking the food PACKAGING MAY HAVE MSG (which the chinese have no control over).

Also, some "unknown" sauce or spice is used that causes migraines.

The medical doctors think it may be a combination of all the incrediates causing the migraines. Not sure.

* Orental food is cooked the way AMERICANS like it*[/b]

If you want migraine free oriental food, go to Asia and Japan. Otherwise, stay away from it or just order plain white rice which is actually quite good.

yoga1st · 08-16-2003, 11:07 PM

i am half chinese and eat chinese food all the time , home cooked and from restraunts sp? also a migraine sufferer, the last time i had a migraine was the day i made homemade potstickers and eggrolls along with deep fried shrimp, duck eggs, and rice
but i don't think it was the trigger , the only thing i bought from the chinese grocer was the wrappers and the package of tempura flour, and i don't add msg, the day before when i was driving home from the store i did have partial blindness in my eye so i knew a migraine was coming on but it didn't hit till the next day,
yoga

Mz Migraine · 08-17-2003, 03:30 PM

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the last time i had a migraine was the day i made homemade potstickers and eggrolls along with deep fried shrimp, duck eggs, and ricebut i don't think it was the trigger

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the only thing i bought from the chinese grocer was the wrappers and the package of tempura flour

You need to check the "incrediantes". Especially if you have been getting migraines all your life and eating the same foods being 1/2 chinese. One and/or all the incrediantes is/are the triggers.
(You're non chinese half is having the migraines

if that is possible!)

Laney00 · 08-17-2003, 04:02 PM

MSG is so hard to avoid, if you buy any premade foods like french fries, soups, speghettios (sp?), those new boxed meals "homestyle bakes", Voila frozen meals. I think its really hard to avoid it!

I have read that not every time will it trigger a migraine, it just depends on what your headache threshhold is at that particular time. Not sure if this is true or not ???

[This message has been edited by Laney00 (edited 08-17-2003).]

Puckerupxox · 08-17-2003, 05:57 PM

Chinese food gives me migraines too. So does caffeine, i know that sounds weird but if i drink caffeinated soda i get a bad headache, does fried foods also cause migraines?