If your child complains of a headache with fever, cold or other illnesses - this is understandable. But what should parents do if the baby says that he has a headache without any obvious reasons? There are several main reasons for the occurrence of a headache, it is with them that you should fight, not with the pain itself.
Vascular disorders
The most widespread vascular disease in children is hypertensive disease. Provoke its development can many factors - pressure drops, heredity, weather factors, sleep disturbances, etc. For the prevention of disease should provide the baby a healthy lifestyle, in particular - a full sleep.
Improper diet
Children under the age of five may experience seizures of headaches when using certain products. Most often these are products containing nitrites, a substance such as tyramine, an excessively high content of vitamin A, aspartame, sodium nitrite, sodium chloride. Also, if a woman is undernourished during pregnancy, it can lead to a low sugar content in her blood, so that a child can suffer from severe headaches from birth.
Migraine
Experts believe that the main cause of migraine is one of the genes that are transmitted on the maternal line, so if the mother had migraines, then there is a great chance that the disease will be peculiar to her child. In people who are prone to migraine, most often in the body is synthesized an inadequate amount of serotonin. Characteristic signs of migraine are attacks of pain, which seems to pulsate in one half of the head, dizziness and nausea.
Neuralgic problems
In most cases, the pain of neuralgic origin is the defeat of the trigeminal nerve (occipital, facial, ear-temporal and others). The pain of this origin is easy to recognize by short and sharp attacks, coming at short intervals. In some cases, can be accompanied by contractions of the facial muscles and can become stronger with sudden movements of the head. Also, the causes of neuralgic pain can be infectious and colds, as well as diseases of the spine in the cervical region.
Head injuries
Trauma of the brain as a result of head injuries is quite frequent in children. In most cases, it can be said that if after a stroke there was a loss of consciousness, then most likely the head injury is serious enough. Most parents believe that if immediately after the impact there are no noticeable signs of violations, then everything is in order. But this is not so - some of the consequences may appear later. Often, after a considerable time after the trauma, you may notice that the child began to complain more often of a headache, a capricious, to say that his eyes darken, and so on. In some cases, "fontanel" can swell, the child can unnaturally move, constantly tilt his head - all this indicates that the head trauma is serious enough to take the child to the doctor.
Psychological problems
It has also long been known that the state of human health is closely related to his emotional state and children are no exception. Nervous overload, psychological problems, stress cause tension, which in turn leads to headaches. And to the pain can lead not only nervous overloads arising due to negative factors (separation from parents, for example), but also noisy games, an excess of emotions, a strong overexcitation - any sources of tension. In this case the pain is usually not very strong, but can continue monotonously for a long period of time.
External factors
In very young children, a headache can occur due to external factors such as loud noises, lack of fresh air, bright light, a sharp smell, etc. And since the babe can not tell in words what disturbs him, parents need to be able to find the cause of crying and eliminate it. It is best to ask a doctor if there is a suspicion of a child's headache.