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Headaches: Children
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Like adults, children experience the infections, trauma, and stresses that can lead to headaches. In fact, research shows that as young people enter adolescence and encounter the stresses of puberty and secondary school, the frequency of headache increases.
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Some children with headaches should have an MRI or CT scan of the head. Reasons for this might include headaches that awaken a child from sleep, early morning headaches, early morning vomiting, seizures, vision loss, or an abnormal neurologic exam.
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"Many times children will have headaches along with sore throats, colds, sinus problems or other infections," said Peter J. Plantes, M.D., medical director of LaurusHealth.com. "Children do... have headaches that are not the result of an underlying medical condition."
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Migraines are not just any type of bad headaches -- they are a specific condition. And they are much more common than most people suspect. Migraines are the most important and frequent type of headache in children, affecting more than one in twelve kids -- yet only 20 percent of children with migraines are ever properly diagnosed and treated (Headache, May 1997).
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