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What Causes Stinging In Head With Headaches In 11 Year Old?
My 11 year old child has headaches everyday for past two weeks but she gets a sensation on her forehead before the headache starts, she says this sensation feels like a nettle sting. She takes painkillers and they go away but keep coming back, she is otherwise well
Tue, 5 Dec 2017
Hi...Thank you for consulting in Health Care magic.
Headache in kids need to be considered serious only when the below symptoms are there -
1. Vomiting continuously
2. Seizures/ Fits
3. Watery of bloody discharge from ears and nose
4. Unconsciousness
5. Altered sensorium or behaviour.
Without the above red flag symptoms, just feeling low energy levels points out towards Migraine and other sorts of tension headaches which are on the rise in current scenario due to excessive academic and peer stress the kids are experiencing.
Regards - Dr. Sumanth
Headache in kids need to be considered serious only when the below symptoms are there -
1. Vomiting continuously
2. Seizures/ Fits
3. Watery of bloody discharge from ears and nose
4. Unconsciousness
5. Altered sensorium or behaviour.
Without the above red flag symptoms, just feeling low energy levels points out towards Migraine and other sorts of tension headaches which are on the rise in current scenario due to excessive academic and peer stress the kids are experiencing.
Regards - Dr. Sumanth
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