Chronic headaches in children and adolescents: Dilemma in diagnosis and management

ICNC2024
Symposia: Pediatric Headaches With The Challenges of The New Normal

Chronic headaches in children and adolescents: Dilemma in diagnosis and management
Shahnaz Ibrahim

ICNC2024
Symposia: Pediatric Headaches With The Challenges of The New Normal

Chronic headaches in children and adolescents: Dilemma in diagnosis and management
Shahnaz Ibrahim
Chronic primary headaches (CPH) are a disabling disorder for children, and adolescents, with a reported prevalence of 0.78% in adolescents, while the prevalence rises up to 1.75% when including the Medication overuse headache (MOH). In adolescents and children suffering from this condition, attacks may interfere with the predictability of normal life activities and affect the ability to work, perform routine course and school activities, and maintain functional social relations. CPH determines a huge decrease of the quality of life chronic migraine (CM), chronic tension-type headache (CTTH) and new daily persistent headache (NDPH) are classified as CPH in the International Classification of Headache Disorders 3rd edition (ICHD 3). Medication-overuse headache (MOH) is classified among secondary headaches, but it generally affects patients with a pre-existing primary headache. It is important for parents and health personnel to work together and develop an individualized treatment plan, depending on the age, social history, patterns of headache, medication use and especially focusing on lifestyle pattern, including type of food, sleep habits and use of mobile phones.

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