DESCRIPTION
Headaches in children present differently in children than adults. This is particularly true of migraine headaches in children. This lecture will explore how migraine syndromes can present before an actual headache is a symptom. Migraine syndromes present already in some infants and these change through growth and development until adolescence when migraine headaches present like those in adults.
• Recognize the migraine syndromes and which ages to expect them
• Be able to distinguish between stroke, epilepsy and migraine with aura in children
• Distinguish migraine headache without aura in children from migraine headache without aura
• Understand how biomechanical factors, diet, chemicals and other triggers can provoke a migraine headache