Migraine Relief From Oxygen

Science Daily reports, for today's news snippet, how oxygen therapy might ease migraine pain.

The study, carried out at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney, reviewed the content and quality of nine existing trials and found a significant increase in the proportion of patients who had relief with oxygen compared to sham therapy.

This is a far more complicated (but none the less welcome) version of my own personal study into the use of oxygen to relieve migraine.

My simple tip is merely to open your windows wide if you feel a migraine looming. It sounds so simple, but how many people forget simple tips for migraine prevention?

If I feel a migraine coming on, I merely open both windows in the room to create a through draft, and this can often be effective in nipping the problem in he bud.

I'm writing this in what passes for summer here in the UK, and it must be admitted that sometimes the impending migraines I've treated in this way have been the product of sultry weather. Opening the windows in such conditions may be far more beneficial than opening it on a freezing cold winter's day. You'd be well-advised to experiment on this one, but in warm weather I do recommend some good old-fashioned "fresh air".