Specifičnosti dece sa migrenom

Abstract

In the period of 1988 to 2005, in nine cities of Vojvodina, there were examined 24,828 children of ages between 3 and 16, with the aim of establishing the incidence of children with migrainous and non-migrainous headaches and their specificity (recognizable characteristics, i.e. predisposing factors of migrainous sydrome. Migrainous syndrome was diagnosed in 8.4% children, more often at girls (8.8% girls vs. 8.0% boys). Children with migrainous headaches were significantly more rarely described as inconspicuous (27.6%) relative to the children without headaches (50.2%) and children with non-migrainous headaches (47.0%), which definitely represented an insufficiently clear specificity of the personality. The following should be accepted as the pre-disposing factors of migrainous sydrome in children: order of birth (second child), duration of breast-feeding, age at the moment of introduction of industrially prepared food into the diet and the age when a child is included into the daycare, material status of the family and family atmosphere, prior existence of paroxysmal torticollis, vertigo episodes of unclear etiology and recidive abdominal pain, as well as insufficient dominance of the hemisphere.