Most headaches occur in the nerves, blood vessels and muscles of the head or neck outside the skull. These muscles or blood vessels may swell, tighten or be stimulated to put pressure on the nerves, so that the nerves will send painful messages to the brain, thus forming a headache.
Causes of Headache Generally speaking, children have many of the same causes as adults, but some of them are hereditary, so if your husband and wife have hereditary headaches, children will also appear. The common causes of headache are:
Certain diseases
Lack of sleep or sudden changes in sleep habits
Do not eat
dehydrate
overpressure
Slight head injury
Watching computer or TV for too long, the hormone level changes.
coach
Hear loud music
smoke
Smell a strong smell, such as perfume.
Excessive intake of caffeine
Sometimes, headaches are caused by certain inflammations, such as otitis media, influenza, arthritis and urinary tract infections. But most headaches don't mean there is a big problem. Only 10% of headaches are caused by disease or inflammation.
If a child has a headache, parents are easily worried. But in fact, most headaches don't mean that children have serious diseases. But if your child has the following symptoms, you should consult a doctor immediately to find out why:
Observe whether the child still has a persistent headache and needs to go to the hospital for examination. There are many reasons for headache, such as cold, rhinitis, otitis media, hypertension, central nervous system infection and so on.
Headache refers to the pain in the area above the orbit and pillow. This is one of the common symptoms of children's nervous system diseases, which is often caused by extracranial diseases.
Scientific principle/background knowledge: Headaches can be divided into acute and chronic types.
When acute headache is accompanied by fever and vomiting, central nervous system infection should be ruled out first.
When chronic headache is accompanied by vomiting without fever, the most important thing is to consider whether there is a tumor in the brain.
Among all kinds of headaches, muscle tension headache and vascular headache are more common, and the headaches caused by intracranial space occupying lesions are only a few, but if they are not diagnosed in time, they will often cause serious consequences.
Therefore, if the child has a headache, parents should take the child to the hospital in time.
In addition, headaches are also related to the living habits of modern children. Watching TV, playing video games and computers for a long time, or doing homework and reading books for a long time will cause eye muscle fatigue and high mental tension; Incorrect sitting posture in class can also cause neck muscle tension; This can lead to headaches in children.
Therefore, parents should pay attention to their children's eye hygiene, which is conducive to preventing myopia and headache.