Headaches and Children

Learn about headaches and children, including common causes, like migraines and stress headaches, treatments, and how to prevent your kids from getting headaches.

Headache and Migraine in Children
Children suffer from headaches, too. Although the treatments are sometimes the same, chidren also have some different types of headaches and different needs.

Parenting Tips
Submit your parenting tips for coping with common issues and problems related to parenting a child with frequent headaches. What works for you?

Headaches in Children and Adolescents
A comprehensive treatment guide to headaches and children and adolescents, including when kids need an MRI or CT, and management tips for specific headaches, from the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Tension Type Headaches
An in-depth report on the causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of common headaches.

Headaches And Children
Learn more about headaches and children from the National Headache Foundation, including types of headaches, causes, and treatments.

Headache Parent Information Guide
A patient information handout on migraine headache in children and adolescents.

Headaches
A headache treatment guide for children with migraines or tension headaches, including medications and pain behavior management.

Headaches in Children
A discussion of the common causes of headaches in children, including migraines, viruses, meningitis, tension type headaches and eye strain.

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