When children have headaches
When children have headaches.When should you worry? Diagnosis and treatment.
On these days, we are easy to have headaches and the children, too. Headaches in children are not often appreciated, and of course, you have to listen to children’s complaints about their headaches.
With you, the problem is that it is time to worry about your children’s headaches. How to know the problem, the types of children’s headache and the treatment?
When should you worry?
Normally, you can determine the causes of children’s headaches. For example, children stay up late, they play outside when it is sunning too long or they collide their head into somewhere. However, when children have unexplained headaches or take place periodically in a short time, you should take the children to the doctor. If the children in 6 years old complain about their unexplained headaches and this occurs once a month or more and held for several months, you should take them to the doctor. If this occurs in growing children, it means that your children can be stressed by learning. You cannot worry about that.
The other factor to consider is that children have or do not have the other accompanied symptoms. For example, children feel completely comfortable between the headaches or not. If not, you need to worry about that. In addition, symptoms related to headaches can be a sign of illness. Other symptoms such as nausea are rare in headaches, so be careful.
Parents should note that when see the children:
- Lack of flexibility.
- Changes in vision.
- Feeling of tinnitus
- Weakness
- Fever or other signs of infection
Children and other types of headaches
In general, children’s headaches are similar to annoying types of headaches in adult. The headache is caused by illness of the body, or the side effects of the drugs that children are drinking. In addition, there are several causes. In children, the bone diseases, ear infections and sinusitis can cause the pains that are described as a headache. Children can also suffer from migraines and stress. Migraine can make they feel right from childhood. If your child is a newborn or toddler, it is certain that you cannot know about his/her migraine because he/she could not tell you.
However, there is one thing you can note is another form of migraine, known as sudden dizziness, usually affect toddlers, that make them feel spinning. This disease occurs suddenly and finishes within a few minutes. Children can suffer from transient migraine, with symptoms such as feeling the “black holes” in front of them, and then the spotlight, etc.
Diagnosis and treatment
Most cases of mild headache will be resolved at home with a little bit of medical intervention. Treatments at home include the child relax in the cool, dark room and a form of acetaminophen, such as Tylenol. When the child feels worse and is taken to the doctor, the doctor will probably ask you about his/her medical history and explain the causes of child’s headache.
Prehistoric disease could be very useful for the diagnosis of doctors, so doctors can ask parents about the record of the child’s headache, about each headache and a few note if have, such as the question of the extent of the pain and duration of the child’s first headache, or about the things that make the headache seem to be better or worse.
The answers of the parents will help diagnose, especially in the cases of children with migraine which is supposed to be the causes of similar diseases such as stress, insomnia, eating less…
The monitoring and recording of symptoms in other parts of the child’s body are also important. The internal or external disorders of nervous system can cause headaches.
