Results from a Cochrane Systematic Review using data from 13 studies has stated that migraine headache for 50 per cent people can be tackled by taking an aspirin within two hours.

Aspirin is effective in handling nausea, vomiting, and sensitivity to light or sound and also other symptoms of a migraine.

But experts have however cautioned people that side effects can be caused by an aspirin and some people will still need to rely on migraine medication.

Researchers studied a data from about 4,222 participants, and found that in one out of four people severe or moderate migraine headache pain was completely relieved. One out of two people, the headache pain was reduced to a mild pain.

It was also found that if aspirin and an antiemetic, which stops people feeling sick, was combined, did good for reducing the migraine symptoms of nausea and vomiting.

Co-author of the study, Sheena Derry, who works in pain research at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, said, "This is largely down to genetic differences. Different people respond to different drugs in different ways, and at different times."

Researchers however stated that further studies were needed to find out the effectiveness of aspirin.