A migraine headache is an intense, incapacitating headache, accompanied by other symptoms, that occurs repeatedly in some children and adults. The blood vessels leading to the scalp and brain plus pain receptors in the brain are involved.
Migraine headaches can affect both sexes but are more common in adolescent and adult females.
Physician's monitoring of general condition and medications. The nature of attacks varies between children and from time to time in the same person. Visual disturbances may last several minutes or several hours, but they disappear once the headache begins. Dull, boring pain in the temple that spreads to the entire side of the child's head. Pain becomes intense and throbbing.