What Types of Headaches Do Children and Adolescents Get?
Children get the same types of headaches adults do, including: tension headaches, migraines, and sinus headaches. What Causes Headaches in Children and Adolescents? Children get headaches for many of the same reasons adults get headaches. But, most headaches in children are usually due to an illness, infection, cold, or fever. Other conditions that can cause headaches include sinusitis (inflammation of the sinuses), pharyngitis (inflammation or infection of the throat), or otitis (ear infection). The exact causes of migraines are unknown, although they are related to changes in the brain as well as to genetic causes. For many years, scientists believed that migraines were linked to the expanding (dilation) and constriction (narrowing) of blood vessels on the brain’s surface. However, it is now believed that migraines are caused by inherited abnormalities in certain areas of the brain. Most children and adolescents (90%) who have migraines have other family members with migraines. When
