Open AccessHeadache in children
Author(s) -
D Pathirana
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
sri lanka journal of child health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 6
eISSN - 2386-110X
pISSN - 1391-5452
DOI - 10.4038/sljch.v34i4.391
Subject(s) - medical journal , sri lanka , scopus , publishing , transparency (behavior) , medicine , library science , open access publishing , child health , open access journal , family medicine , political science , medline , south asia , law , history , ethnology , computer science
"Common" nonspecific headaches are the most frequent headaches in childhood and do not require a visit to the physician. Migraine is the most common of the headache syndromes with characteristic profiles, followed by the muscle contraction (tension), inflammatory and psychogenic types. Less frequent are mass or brain tumor headaches, malformation and hypertensive headaches. Migraine goes unrecognized more than the other common syndromes. Minor tranquilization may stop the pattern. The most important aspect of treatment for muscle contraction headache is recognition.
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