Headaches in children

              Headaches in children

Headache is thought to be only in adults. Whereas approximately 20% of children between 5-7 years of chronic headaches are. Older children may describe headaches, but younger children can not do that.

Researchers and headache, according to the types and categories are in accordance with mechanisms of pain. Creates headaches in children are five mechanisms:

TENSION TYPE HEADACHE IN CHILDREN
Many head and neck pain is caused by contraction of muscles around. Tension-type headaches in children, the wrong attitude, anxiety, grief, depression, fibromyalgia may be due to such reasons. Tension-type headaches and neck tension created by the contraction of the muscles surrounding arise as a result. Tension-type headache in children has a variety of reasons. Usually occurs while at school, playing, resting, eating, or not seen.

Stress, anxiety and depression in children as in older can cause headaches. This tension is usually created at the school. The reason for the tension in children, family arguments, sibling rivalry, or school failure can be. But out of this depression may be observed in children with headache.

Posture, eye disorders, physical symptoms such as tension-type headaches in children can cause.

Tension-type headaches in children, sometimes for reasons as simple as hunger may occur. After a long night of sleep, going to school without breakfast or skipping meals can lead to it.

Ingestion of food or some trigger infections, headaches may also begin (caffeine, chocolate, some fruit, some meat products play a role in triggering). Which of these foods can be found by following the child.

The treatment of tension headache in children

Tension-type headaches beta blockers and antidepressants are used as preventive treatment. Children must be very careful using these drugs. Which was created to eliminate the headaches and muscle relaxant drugs and pain relievers and relaxation exercises are useful. Behavior therapy and posture training for various also must be given.

MIGRAINE IN CHILDREN

Children under 7 years can not usually describe the pain of migraine. 10 years toward increasingly begin to describe this pain. 2.5% incidence before the age of seven, seven years between puberty and the prevalence is around 5% s. A vascular headache is migraine. Expansion and contraction of blood vessels in the manner of their throbbing pain of migraine is caused.

In between bouts of migraine in the watch and there are free periods. Pain, called aura before and will start showing the symptoms of pain can be a time when. Aura during the child floating lines, bright lights, dark dots are visible. All children in this period, but there is no aura. Skin pallor, fatigue, throbbing in the head from one side or the user pain, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting occurs. Changes in mental status, dizziness, blurred vision, loss of appetite or may be accompanied by an increase. On of 70-90% of the families of children with migraine have migraine symptoms and migraine in the child's personality structure is very similar to the mother and father. Bright and flickering lights, noise, cinema or TV, physical or mental tension, anxiety, or trigger depression play a role. Extreme fatigue and too rare to as a migraine trigger factors as sunlight may play a role.

The treatment; blocker, antidepressants, paracetamol may be used.

ORGANIC-induced headaches

Firefox: Headache may occur because of high fever. First, you should measure your child's fever.

Infections: Many infections headaches may also occur. Ear infections, urinary tract, the lungs can.

Head trauma: fall and crash as a result of headaches in children are common. Whether the brain damage in head injury with the only clinical test can be understood. In such cases, the child must be taken to medical facilities. As time progresses drowsiness, nausea and vomiting, loss of consciousness may develop.

Brain tumors: Headaches in less than 1% of children with benign or malignant brain tumors were found. As the severity of headaches increases tumor growth and tumor type and some other symptoms are also accompanied by the place.

Meningitis: headache by high fever, neck stiffness, mental confusion, drowsiness is.