Migraines in Children
Key points
- Many adults who suffer from migraines can tell the difference between a severe headache and a true migraine.
- But when your child complains his head is pounding, how do you know if it's a migraine?
- * Pounding or throbbing pain. * Pain on one side of the forehead. * Nausea, vomiting or abdominal discomfort. * Relief by sleep. * Family history of migraine.
- Since medications for migraine are more potent than common headache remedies, it's important to tell the difference.
Many adults who suffer from migraines can tell the difference between a severe headache and a true migraine.
But when your child complains his head is pounding, how do you know if it's a migraine? Since medications for migraine are more potent than common headache remedies, it's important to tell the difference.
According to the Children's Hospital in Richmond, Va., to be migraine, a child must have recurrent headaches or other neurological symptoms separated by symptom-free intervals and at least three of the following:
* Pounding or throbbing pain.
* Pain on one side of the forehead.
* Nausea, vomiting or abdominal discomfort.
* Relief by sleep.
* Family history of migraine.
Written and revised by
Gerald Hurowitz, M.D.
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