According to statistics, about one in three people faced with migraine aged 13-16 years. But many, fortunately, these episodes are in the past and do not move into adulthood. Although the peak of the disease between the ages of 30-40 years, it starts in adolescence (rarely, but it happens and kids). The mechanism of the disease is sudden contraction and the subsequent rapid expansion of blood vessels in the brain.
Harbinger – aura
Characterized by throbbing migraine pain in one half of the head (although babies tend migraine not one, but two-sided). There may also be nausea or vomiting, light and phonophobia, hand shake. Pain increases during exercise. Often migraine is accompanied by aura: that is, before a headache, before the eyes start to blur glowing circles may numb hands or feet, there is a strange smell, and even hallucinations.
Unlike other types of migraine pain occurs suddenly and steadily increases, and then disappears in English - until the next unexpected visit. The average attack lasts for 2-4 hours, but can not leave alone, and up to three days. In young children, the pain usually lasts for long, ends with vomiting, after which the child falls asleep easily. By the way, children with migraines often complain not on the head and stomach. Confirm the diagnosis, rule out other causes, will help to detailed discussion with a neurologist and research (MRI and duplex scanning of the arteries).
Mom's legacy
Often the disease is inherited - usually through the maternal line. In general, it is believed that migraine female face. Often the first attack of migraine accounts for menarche - first menstruation in a girl's life. There is, incidentally, a special kind of disease - a true menstrual migraine. It only occurs 1-2 days before menstruation and never at any other time. Seizures lasting and very strong. This painful disease treated with anti-migraine drugs, and if they do not help, connect hormonal medication. Pain medication for migraine is better not to abuse it. After all, it could cause a new type of disease - drug headache. Better at episodic attacks take non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs).
But with frequent migraines analgesics do not act in this case, a special class of drugs - triptans. But you can only take them after experts found that it is indeed a migraine and not something else. The dosage regimen and selects the physician. Patients with an established diagnosis of migraine should avoid those things that can provoke seizures. List them all is difficult. For someone hazards a lack of sleep or a change in the weather, for someone - dehydration or overheating in the sun, others react to the attacks of stress and fatigue after excessive physical or mental stress, the fourth - to take medicine. Starvation and strict diet and lack of oxygen and lack of exercise can also trigger migraines. Finally, this side effect can be accompanied by cold and allergy - head can get sick from even a sip of water or a piece of ice cream. Or take, for example, "migraine gourmet", which affects many young people - it occurs after the holiday feasts. Among high-risk foods - coffee, cheese, vinegar, chocolate, nuts, citrus fruits, smoked, eggs, tomatoes, canned foods, fatty and spicy dishes, pizza, and monosodium glutamate (found in most fast food).
If you add up all the above, it turns out that the child's propensity to migraine need to make sure that he ate regularly and balanced, but avoided delicacies. I do not overtired and observed from the stress. Unnecessarily she tried drugs and led a healthy lifestyle. That is, alcohol and cigarettes - is not decisive, and sports and walks in the fresh air - so cheerful.
And another point. Doctors made a psychological portrait of a man with a migraine. It turned out to people with the disease are predisposed expressed the desire for leadership and high social activity. Therefore, among the people who suffer from migraine, a lot of great personalities: Chekhov, Isaac Newton, Karl Marx, and Sigmund Freud. On the other hand, are prone to migraines, and people with increased anxiety and a high level of claims. Accordingly, if your child is a born leader, make sure that it is not too overtired and more rested. And if the children of high self-esteem struggle with painful self-doubt, help him get rid of complexes and show an example of self-irony.
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| Migraine Treatmentfor Children - My head hurts |
Characterized by throbbing migraine pain in one half of the head (although babies tend migraine not one, but two-sided). There may also be nausea or vomiting, light and phonophobia, hand shake. Pain increases during exercise. Often migraine is accompanied by aura: that is, before a headache, before the eyes start to blur glowing circles may numb hands or feet, there is a strange smell, and even hallucinations.
Unlike other types of migraine pain occurs suddenly and steadily increases, and then disappears in English - until the next unexpected visit. The average attack lasts for 2-4 hours, but can not leave alone, and up to three days. In young children, the pain usually lasts for long, ends with vomiting, after which the child falls asleep easily. By the way, children with migraines often complain not on the head and stomach. Confirm the diagnosis, rule out other causes, will help to detailed discussion with a neurologist and research (MRI and duplex scanning of the arteries).
Mom's legacy
Often the disease is inherited - usually through the maternal line. In general, it is believed that migraine female face. Often the first attack of migraine accounts for menarche - first menstruation in a girl's life. There is, incidentally, a special kind of disease - a true menstrual migraine. It only occurs 1-2 days before menstruation and never at any other time. Seizures lasting and very strong. This painful disease treated with anti-migraine drugs, and if they do not help, connect hormonal medication. Pain medication for migraine is better not to abuse it. After all, it could cause a new type of disease - drug headache. Better at episodic attacks take non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs).
But with frequent migraines analgesics do not act in this case, a special class of drugs - triptans. But you can only take them after experts found that it is indeed a migraine and not something else. The dosage regimen and selects the physician. Patients with an established diagnosis of migraine should avoid those things that can provoke seizures. List them all is difficult. For someone hazards a lack of sleep or a change in the weather, for someone - dehydration or overheating in the sun, others react to the attacks of stress and fatigue after excessive physical or mental stress, the fourth - to take medicine. Starvation and strict diet and lack of oxygen and lack of exercise can also trigger migraines. Finally, this side effect can be accompanied by cold and allergy - head can get sick from even a sip of water or a piece of ice cream. Or take, for example, "migraine gourmet", which affects many young people - it occurs after the holiday feasts. Among high-risk foods - coffee, cheese, vinegar, chocolate, nuts, citrus fruits, smoked, eggs, tomatoes, canned foods, fatty and spicy dishes, pizza, and monosodium glutamate (found in most fast food).
If you add up all the above, it turns out that the child's propensity to migraine need to make sure that he ate regularly and balanced, but avoided delicacies. I do not overtired and observed from the stress. Unnecessarily she tried drugs and led a healthy lifestyle. That is, alcohol and cigarettes - is not decisive, and sports and walks in the fresh air - so cheerful.
And another point. Doctors made a psychological portrait of a man with a migraine. It turned out to people with the disease are predisposed expressed the desire for leadership and high social activity. Therefore, among the people who suffer from migraine, a lot of great personalities: Chekhov, Isaac Newton, Karl Marx, and Sigmund Freud. On the other hand, are prone to migraines, and people with increased anxiety and a high level of claims. Accordingly, if your child is a born leader, make sure that it is not too overtired and more rested. And if the children of high self-esteem struggle with painful self-doubt, help him get rid of complexes and show an example of self-irony.
