[livi]

I concur with the migraine diagnos. It is, unfortunately, rather common also with children nowadays. Twenty years ago it was fairly rare for a school child to have migraine. Personally I suspect it is the ever increasing stress, commitments, school and free time activities loaded on our kids shoulders that has seen an increase in the numbers of young people with different types of head aches including migraine.

We usually focus, hence, on the daily activities of the child. Sometimes it can be 'improved'. Most migraine attacks with children are rather short lasting, a few hours is common. Sometimes a whole day or two however. Depending on how frequent and severe attacks, the treatment varies. In many cases, resting in a dark, quite room is enough. Often they need to take a mild pain killer however. In rare cases, when the attacks are very frequent like more than one or two times a week, we try a daily doses of preventive medicin.

Many childrens threshold for a migraine attack is much lower during certain viral infections. I have seen many children who suffered only one attack during several years. Presumably because they caught a virus that, for them, was extremely provocative in this sense. Hopefully this may be the case for your kid, or at least that it will be rare and mild attacks.

Typically, there is no specific factors above stress and infections involved in migraine, although once (and only once!) I had a teenage boy with both mold allergy and a disturbingly severe migraine. His parents basement was full of mold and once they moved out the migraine subsided completely. Just a random case studie however.

Also, it is very common for migraine to debut during the early teen ages. Presumably because of the vast hormonal changes during those years. It is also very common for it to subside after that. Many young adults have 'grown out of' their migraine in their early twenties.