Do Children Get Migraines Too?
Despite the headache getting all the press, a migraine isn’t really just a severe headache. Indeed, in many ways it’s not a headache at all; that pain is just the most prominent of the many migraine symptoms that indicate the underlying disease. The symptoms themselves are many and varied, and some don’t appear to even be related to each other. Yet all of them, whether they are “precursor” symptoms or post-headache symptoms, come from a long list of things that are all somehow part of a migraine.
One migraine variant involves what is called the “aura,” which most people think of as a visual effect. This can manifest as bright flashes or zigzags of light, blind spots, or just light sensitivity. But in fact, even though the visual symptoms are most common for the twenty percent of migraine sufferers who experience the “aura,” it is actually a neurological effect that can also manifest in other migraine symptoms, like a tingling in the arms and hands that moves up to the face, or even a slurring of speech or the inability to concentrate.
Even if the person doesn’t experience an aura, their chronic migraines will manifest other types of recurring symptoms. They could find themselves slowly becoming extra sensitive to smells around them, to sounds or to temperature, for example. But the most common of all the migraine symptoms is the headache itself, which usually concentrates on one side of the head, centering on the temple. It isn’t always the same side of the head either, but can alternate between attacks. Nor is it confined to the temple area for everyone; it can extend itself to surround the eyes, or move to the back of the head.
With migraine symptoms being so varied, potentially affecting people’s eyes, skin, digestive system or even hearing, how can these headaches really be lumped together as migraines at all? The reason why they can is partly because the headache itself in the common denominator; having the same underlying cause. And each person’s common migraine will repeat the same symptoms over and over each time. People all experience a few symptoms out of a common large list that unites them together as migraine sufferers, as opposed to those who merely get ordinary headaches once in a while.
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