Children are no different than us grown-ups when it comes to getting headaches. By that I mean that some children get them often and it is nothing to worry about. Most of the time when I see a child for headaches in clinic, the parents underlying fear is that their child has a brain tumor so I put that on the table for discussion right away. I have seen children complain of headaches as early as they can verbalize and localize symptoms, but during the teen years, headaches are much more common.
The way I explain headaches in clinic is that it is often a spectrum with tension headaches on one end and a full blown migraine on the other. It is a continuum where sometimes you have more symptoms than others.
Headaches in general can be triggered by a variety of things including Continue reading ‘My Head Hurts’
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