Headaches in Children
Headache is a frequent, disabling complaint for adolescents. A survey of US high schools reported weekly headache in more than 20% of adolescents, with daily headache reported in 11% of girls and 3.5% of boys.1 Migraine is the most common type of chronic headache in school-aged children, with migraine affecting 11% of children between 5 to 15 years old, and tension-type headache in only 1%.2 The most common age for developing migraine is 12 years old. Treating headache is important in children, since they lose an average of 7.8 days per...More
