OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence, causes and clinical features of short lasting recurrent limb pain (recurrent limb pain) in children. DESIGN Population-based study in two stages, with an initial screening questionnaire followed by clinical interviews and physical examination of symptomatic children. SETTING 67 primary and secondary schools in the city of Aberdeen. SUBJECTS 2165 chi...

Copyright: © 2013 Ming X. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. The connection between headaches and sleep disorders has recently come under greater scrutiny as more and more studies are being conduc...

Visual disorders are an important symptom in the migraine of developing age. Different kinds of visual disturbances can precede, accompany or follow a migraine attack. These visual disturbances can be grouped into negative (hemianopsia, quadrantopsia, scotoma) and positive (phosphene, teicopsia, metamorphopsia, macropsia, micropsia, teleopsia, diplopia, dischromatopsia, hallucination disturbanc...

Objective: Migraine is a common disease in childhood. Oxidative stress has been implicated the pathogenesis of migraine. Dynamic thiol/disulfide homeostasis proven to be marker oxidative stress. We aimed investigate correlation between migraine and dynamic homeostasis. Material Methods: A total 141 children (71 migrain 70 controls) were included. The serum thiol, native disulfide levels measure...

Migraine is a common, but often underdiagnosed complaint in children and the lack of studies regarding its treatment in this particularly population makes it harder to enlarge the choices of treatment. However, recent trials made it easier to utilize newer compounds that improve the outcome of the disease. We reviewed the treatment of pediatric migraine and divided therapeutic methods into two ...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to prospectively evaluate the International Classification of Headache Disorders I (ICHD-I) diagnostic criteria for migraine in children and adolescents. METHODS 150 pain diaries were analyzed during an initial consultation. The duration of migraine headache attacks were divided into 2 groups: Group I, for attacks lasting > 2 hours, and Group II, for ...

Only in recent years has there been a mandate, if you would, to study newer pharmaceutical agents in children and adolescents. As such, there is a paucity of well controlled clinical trials, let alone drugs that have been through registration trials in these age groups. Migraine, while less common especially in children than adults however still requires treatment. This has led healthcare provi...

BACKGROUND The use of anticonvulsant drugs for the prevention of migraine in children and adolescents has been supported in the past. AIMS To evaluate the available evidence for the efficacy and safety of anticonvulsants drugs in the prevention of migraine attacks in children and adolescents. METHODS Studies were selected through a comprehensive literature search. We included all types of s...

The goal of this case-control examination, conducted in France and Italy, was to determine whether an association exists between infantile colic and migraine headaches. Consecutive children aged 6 to 18 years, who presented to 1 of 3 emergency departments and were diagnosed with migraine or tension-type (according to criteria of the International Headache Classifi cation, 2nd edition) primary h...

Ophthalmoplegic migraine is a rare disorder characterized by childhood onset recurrent attacks of migraineous headaches with paresis of ocular cranial nerves. The third cranial nerve is commonly involved. Involvement of fourth and sixth cranial nerve is uncommon. We present a child with opthalmoplegic migraine with recurrent sixth cranial nerve palsy on two occasions. Neurology Asia 2013; 18(1)...