Health Tip: Migraines in Children


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- Health Tip: Migraines in Children

- When it's more than just a severe headache

(HealthDayNews) -- 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.

- -- Felicity Stone

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