Here is some information that may help reduce or eliminate occasional headaches. If you suffer constantly from debilitating headaches you should be under the care of a physian, Chiropracter or other healthcare provider.

1. Keep a Headache Journal
Make your own statistics about your headaches. This may let you draw conclusions about your headaches. When do you get them? What where you doing before? After a sleepless night? After partying? Before your morning coffee? Statistics can often reveal a simple answer to your headache problem.

2. Eleminate Stress
Stress is one of the biggest factors in occassional headache pain. Or in constant pain if you are continually under stress and tension.

3. Get the Right Amount of Sleep
Some people get too much sleep, which is bad for some migraine sufferers, but most people don't get enough sleep. Lack of adequate rest and sleep can cause headaches. A lack of sleep also reduces our ability to deal with stress and tension, so we get a double wammie.

4. Throw Out the Butts
Both smoking and second hand smoke causes headaches for many people. If you stop smoking, or have someone close to you stop smoking, you may be able to live headache free.

5. Eat a Healthy Diet
Low fat diets help fight headaches for many. Drink plenty of water, too. Dehydration is a major cause in headache pain.

6. Get Lots of Oxygen
If you exercise on a regular basis and sit up straight you will increase the flow of oxygen in your system. This helps your metabolism and also helps reduce stress and headaches.

7. Get Your Eyes Examined
Eye strain can cause tension headaches and more. Our eyes change over the years, so if you haven't had your eyes examined in a year or two you may be suffering from improper vision care.

Allergies can cause headaches for many people. Our air has become polluted and this has increased the sufferers of allergies, which has increased headaches, also.

A recent poll from the allergy section on about.com revealed these results on personal causes of headaches:

• Foods - 12%
• Pollens - 14%
• Scented products - 18%
• Secondhand smoke - $13%
• Sinuses - 17%
• Other - 14%

If you see a cause of your headaches listed above, you may not just be a headache sufferer, but an allergy sufferer with headache symptoms.

Besides allergies, other headaches causes are:

• Dehyration
• Lack of Sleep
• Stress & Tension
• Eye Strain
• Non-ergonomic correct positions
• Lack of exersice
• Lack of oxygen