Adolescent issues in migraine: A focus on menstrual migraine

Migraine commonly affects adolescents, and menstrual migraine often begins in young girls. If undiagnosed or ineffectively treated, migraine can lead to disability, school absenteeism, emotional or social difficulties, and chronification of headache. Thus, recognizing and accurately diagnosing migra...

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Published in:Current pain and headache reports 2008-10, Vol.12 (5), p.384-387
Main Authors: Lay, Christine L., Broner, Susan W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Child
Complementary Therapies - methods
Drug Therapy
Female
Headache - diagnosis
Headache - epidemiology
Headache - therapy
Humans
Internal Medicine
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Menstruation
Migraine
Pain Medicine
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Summary:Migraine commonly affects adolescents, and menstrual migraine often begins in young girls. If undiagnosed or ineffectively treated, migraine can lead to disability, school absenteeism, emotional or social difficulties, and chronification of headache. Thus, recognizing and accurately diagnosing migraine and menstrual migraine, developing effective treatment strategies (both pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic), and educating both the adolescent and her parents are important in order to minimize the potential early disability of this disorder and limit the otherwise likely progression of migraine to a disabling disorder of adulthood.
ISSN:1531-3433
1534-3081
DOI:10.1007/s11916-008-0065-7