MIGRAINE AND TENSION-TYPE HEADACHE IN CHILDREN: THE APPROACH TO EFFECTIVE TREATMENT. PART 2

Abstract

Pediatric neurologists often have to prescribe drugs off-label in children, according to individual approach to every patient and weighing possible benefits and risk of side-effects. Multidisciplinary approach to migraine and tension-type headache treatment in children, including correction of comorbid psychiatric and somatic disorders, is a critical point in decrease of frequency and severity of headaches and normalization of everyday children’s activity. In the second part of the article the authors discuss the problems of symptomatic (episodic drugs taking in order to arrest a headache attack) and preventive (regular prolonged drug taking directed on decrease of frequency and severity of headaches) medical treatment of migraine and tension-type headaches in pediatric practice.

Keywords

• children
• migraine
• tension-type headache
• symptomatic treatment
• preventive treatment