HEADACHE IN CHILDREN
It is thought that headache may be only in adults. However, chronic headaches occur in approximately 20% of children aged 5-7 years.
Older children can identify headaches, but children of this age and younger ones cannot.
Researchers classify headaches according to their types and pain formation mechanisms. There are 5 mechanisms that cause headaches in children:
Tension Type: Many headaches are caused by contraction of muscles around the neck. Your child's tension-type headaches can be caused by wrong posture, distress, sadness, depression.
Vascular: The blood vessels and arteries within and around the skull can expand. These enlarged vessels compress the nerves and cause pain.
Intracranial pressure: Some tumors, hematoma, etc. organic causes may cause pain by increasing intracranial pressure.
Inflammation: Eye, ear, nose, teeth, sinus inflammation can cause headaches.
Neurogenic or Epileptic Headaches: Some nervous disorders, such as epilepsy (epilepsy), can cause headaches.
TENSION TYPE HEADS IN CHILDREN
Tension-type headaches occur as a result of the tension created by the muscles around the neck. There are several causes of tension-type headaches in children. It is usually seen at school, not when playing, eating or resting.
Causes:
Stress: Stress, anxiety or depression can cause headaches in children as well as in adults. Usually this tension occurs in the school. However, depressive children may also have headaches.
Somatic tension: Somatic symptoms such as posture disorders and eye disorders can cause tension headaches in children.
Hunger: Tension headaches in children can sometimes occur due to simple reasons such as hunger. After a long night's sleep, going to school without breakfast or skipping meals can be the reason.
Some inflammatory diseases
The ingestion of certain trigger foods can cause headaches: caffeine, chocolate, some meat products, some fruits play a triggering role. Which of these foods can be learned by following the child.
Treatment: Beta blockers and antidepressants can be used as preventive treatment for tension headaches. Your doctor should decide which medicines are used and in what quantities. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory and relaxation exercises are useful for the relief of headache.
MIGRAINE IN CHILDREN:
Children under the age of 7 often do not describe migraine pain. Towards the age of 10 they gradually begin to identify these pains. The incidence was 2.5% before the age of 7 years; The incidence between puberty and puberty is about 5%.
Migraine is a vascular headache. Vascular enlargement and contraction triggers throbbing pain of migraine.
The pain is recurrent and there are periods without pain. Before the onset of pain, there may be a period of symptoms called aura that indicates that the pain will begin. During the aura, the child may see wavy lines, bright lights and dark spots. However, not all children have this aura period. Skin pallor, excessive fatigue, throbbing pain on one side or forehead, abdominal pain, nausea occurs. Changes in mental state may be accompanied by dizziness, blurred vision, increased or decreased appetite. 70-90% of children with migraine have migraine complaints in their families and the personality structure of the child is very similar to the parent with migraine.
Bright and flickering lights, noise, cinema or TV, physical or mental tensions, anxiety or depression, play a triggering role. Rarely, excessive fatigue and too much sunlight can play a role as a triggering factor in migraine.
Betablockers or antidepressants can be used as a preventive, paracetamol for the relief of pain.
ORGANIC CAUSED HEADS:
Fever: Headache may occur due to high fever. First, you should measure your child's fever.
Infections: Headaches can also occur in many infections. The infection may be in the ear, urinary tract, lungs.
Head Traumas: Headaches are common in children as a result of falls and impacts. Only brain tests can be used to determine if there is brain damage in head trauma. In such cases, take them to the health institution. As time goes on, drowsiness, nausea and vomiting, loss of consciousness may develop.
Brain Tumors: Less than 1% of children with headache have benign or malignant brain tumors. As the tumor grows, the severity of the headaches increases and is accompanied by some other findings depending on the type and location of the tumor.
Meningitis: Headache is accompanied by high fever, neck stiffness, mental blur, sleep halide.
DO NOT FORGET ALL HEADACHES WANT MEDICAL OWN. LIFE IS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND HEAD HEAD INJURY, BRAIN TUMOR, MENINGITIS, LEUKEMIA ORIGIN. FOR THESE REASONS, DO NOT REDUCE HEADACHE AND CONTACT YOUR PHYSICIAN ASAP.
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