Can Coke Cure Your Headache?

Minutes turn to hours. Hours turn to days. Days turn to weeks and you still haven't found a better way to cure that damn headache. Over the counter pills don't seem to work the way they should so what do you resort to? Coke. No I don’t mean snorting up cocaine but rather downing a tall glass of chilled coke.

From 1886 to 1899, Coca cola advertised itself as a drink to cure headaches, exhaustion relief, nerve tonic and stimulant. The fact that the drink contained curative traits such as caffeine from the kola nut and the extract of cocoa leaves is proof enough to this statement and the famous ingredients to John Pembertons legendary brew.

Caffeine found in the African kola nut was accountable for the drink’s headache-curing functions. This is because; it has the capability to contract the flow of blood to dilated vessels in the head, thus minimizing pain. Several migraine prescriptions emphasis is on getting the blood vessels back to their regular size before they inflict chaos on the nerves nearby. Some migraine victims usually find relief in an early morning coffee or coke.

However, what caffeine does to your blood vessels may be good and bad too. While it may assist to tighten your blood vessels, the headache- caffeine linking could rebound and start expanding them instead. A study was conducted with children and teenagers to examine the relationship between drinking colas and a headache. Each partaker was a consistent cola drinker, averaging approximately 1.5 liters a day. Each had chronic headache, but neither had a past of migraine. They all steadily stopped drinking coke over 1-2 weeks, and over 91% were unrestricted by headaches for the next 24 weeks. Experts advise keeping your day-to-day intake between 200mg and 600mg.

Keeping your consumption balanced and low ought to help you evade a headache - caffeine connection.