Symptoms and treatment of migraine in children

1 Etiological factors

In order to prevent a baby from developing migraines, it is important to know what factors can trigger the onset of the disease.

1. Tension in the family. Any stressful situation in the form of quarrels between family members greatly affects the nervous system of the baby. Also, you should pay attention to what kind of relationship the teenager has with his friends, acquaintances, teachers, and what is his academic performance at school.
2. A constant pastime for computer games or watching TV.Border condition - when the child spends about six hours behind them. This load on the nervous system leads to the fact that he will begin to have headaches.
3. Genetic predisposition to migraine. As it was said above, by inheritance from parents to the child it can be passed precisely a painful reaction to this or that kind of stimulus.
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4. Intolerance of certain products. If migraine attacks begin after a particular food, then the child should change the diet and minimize this product.

Most often, migraine occurs in children who are exposed to stressful situations. And, no matter where they occur in the family, kindergarten or school, these psychological problems need to be addressed. In fact the kid can be nervous up to vomiting and occurrence of headaches. It often happens that children are exposed to this disease after physical exercises at school. This is due to the fact that the child's body is difficult to cope with the lessons, psychological problems, lack of sleep, and even with various physical exercises.

Secondary factors of migraine occurrence include factors such as a failure of hormones, the consumption of alcoholic beverages, passive and active smoking.

2 The main symptoms of

Migraine in children can not be determined with a thermometer or a device that measures blood pressure, as the temperature and pressure during an attack remain normal. This disease is very easy to confuse with a general malaise.

Symptoms to which extreme attention should be paid:

1. Appearance of nausea and / or vomiting.
2. Constant and based pain in one side of the head.
3. Irritability of light.
4. Violation of the speech and visual apparatus.
5. The appearance before the eyes of flies or other spots that interfere with normal vision.
6. Constant dizziness.
7. The duration of the attack is from 1 to 72 hours.

No way, these symptoms can not be ignored, since they can indicate a migraine in a child.

If the baby complains of a general malaise or the fact that his head is very sore, you should pay attention to this, since it can be a migraine, and it never appears or disappears without a trace.

Therefore, in order to cure migraines in children, you must first pay attention to all the symptoms, as well as find out the factor that affects the baby's health, and after that go to the doctor, and try to reduce the headaches to a common effort.

3 Treatment methods

Treatment of migraine in children is a difficult task for neurology. In order to properly cure a migraine, you need to observe five such principles, as:

• timely diagnosis;
• individual preventive treatment;
• the correct set of treatment with the help of medicines and non-drug methods;
• a healthy lifestyle;
• a long process of treatment in order to rid the child of this disease.

Please note that the baby must be treated not only with the help of medication, but also with the help of psychotherapy, physiotherapy and acupuncture.

Parents of a sick kid should understand that this disease is fearless, and in order to cure it you need patience and time. The range of medications that treat children from migraine is limited, and what can be taken by an adult can not be given to a child, as it may have various side effects.

It's completely forbidden to treat yourself with medication independently! And the treatment should appoint a doctor neurologist or neurologist.

And the parents, as soon as they noticed the first signs of migraine, should provide the baby with the following:

• normal daily routine;
• restful sleep;
• high-grade food;
• moderate physical activity.

It should be noted that even long breaks between meals can affect the onset of migraine.