| What is white noise? If you've seen Pollyanna, you | | | | For migraineurs who experience prodrome symptoms, |
| know that white light is actually composed of light from | | | | symptoms that let them know a migraine is coming, |
| every color of the spectrum. White noise is a | | | | white noise can help stave off a headache. For many |
| combination of all audible frequencies. The sounds are | | | | migraine sufferers, noise is a headache trigger and the |
| spread evenly across the frequency band so that no | | | | noise canceling properties can help stop a headache |
| one single sound or frequency stands out. When the | | | | by removing the noise trigger from the environment. |
| frequencies are mixed they cancel each other out and | | | | One article even suggested that white noise machines |
| create a deadening effect. | | | | be made available to migraineurs at work as a |
| This deadening effect has helped some migraine | | | | prophylactic measure to reduce lost time due to |
| sufferers by masking other, more painful sounds during | | | | headache. |
| a headache. One of the best natural ways to relieve | | | | Some people find relief from migraines by staring at |
| migraine pain is to sleep through it. Migraine pain makes | | | | the static--visual white noise--on a television screen set |
| it hard to fall asleep, especially when you add in the | | | | between channels or with the cable unplugged. Some |
| photo- and phonosensitive elements. A white noise | | | | report that the migraine disappears completely. Those |
| machine or recording can help soothe the sensitivity | | | | who use visual white noise recommend doing so with |
| long enough to allow a migraineur to fall asleep. | | | | the sound off. |