Headache in Children /

Headaches in children: an overview

01 What Do I Need To Know?

 

02 What Others Say

  • Royal Children's Hospital melbourne: kids health info

Headache in children and teenagers

  • National headache foundation

Headache in Children

  • Mayo Clinic

Headaches in children

03 I Want To Know More

  • National Headache Foundation: educational module

Headache Headstart for young sufferers 

04 Clinicians Tools and Resources

  • Royal Children's Hospital: Clinical Practice Guidelines

Headache patterns

 

  1. Acute recurrent
    • Migraine (common, classical, complicated)

  2. Chronic non-progressive
    • Tension 
    • Anxiety
    • Depression
    • Somatisation

  3. Chronic progressive
    • Tumour
    • Benign intracranial hypertension
    • Brain abcess
    • Hydrocephalus

  4. Acute on Chronic non-progressive
    • Tension headache with coexistant migraine
  • Starship Hospital New Zealand: Clinical Practice Giudelines

Headache in Childhood

  • University of British Columbia

Approach to a child with a headache

 

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Last updated: 25/02/2012