Affiliation:
1. David NK Symon, Department of Child Health, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB9 2ZD; George Russell, Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital, Cornhill Road. Aberdeen AB9 2ZG, Scotland;
Abstract
It has long been recognized that some cases of recurrent abdominal pain in children are related to migraine, but the diagnostic criteria for abdominal migraine have not been defined. We have identified a group of children with recurrent abdominal pain who had a family history of migraine—in over half the cases in a first-degree relative—and who obtained marked relief from their symptoms from specific anti-migraine therapy. These children had a well-defined syndrome comprising episodes of midline abdominal pain of sufficient severity to interfere with normal activities and lasting for prolonged periods, frequently accompanied by pallor, headache, anorexia, nausea, and vomiting. It is proposed that these children have “abdominal migraine”.
Subject
Neurology (clinical),General Medicine
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