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Are you a parent or a care-giver of a child (11 and under) with migraine? Live in the UK? Then The Migraine Trust is asking for your help! Would you take a few minutes to fill out a questionnaire related to children and migraine? It’s actually a two-parter – part to be filled out by [...]
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We know that people start having migraine attacks as very young children. It’s hard to say if there’s an age when migraine starts, because the younger we are the harder it is for us to recognize and express the symptoms. I may have had migraine as a child – but I’ll probably never be sure [...]
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The Migraine Research Foundation is helping children with chronic migraine. One of the ways their helping is by giving funding to researchers such as Dr. Golda Ginsburg, who is studying approaches to treatment for children migraineurs. In this video, hear Dr. Ginsburg discuss her research. You can help fund migraine research by giving to the [...]
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Valproic acid, and the related compound divalproex acid (Depakote) are very common migraine preventatives. But their use as abortives – to kill a specific migraine attack – has never been established. However, some researches still see possibilities, especially in the emergency room. One case in Israel concerned an adolescent with Acute Confusional Migraine (ACM). This is [...]
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Stomach aches are legendary in children. As are those mysterious illnesses where the child is vomiting ("Probably something they ate"). Is it just part of growing up? In recent years researchers have been warning – don’t just assume that those aches and pains are simply a part of childhood that they’ll grow out of. We [...]
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