You probably have already forgotten, because they are not memories that someone wants to keep from their childhood, those abdominal pains that bent you in the bed of your room and sometimes your parents did not believe, because They thought you wanted to avoid going to school.They were pains of an intensity and duration, sometimes several hours, which luckily you did not feel again when you reach youth and that today begin to be known as abdominal migraine.
Did you know that Abdominal Migrana exists?
Have you heard about the abdominal migraine? Probably not, but you should not feel guilty about it, because it is a term of recent use that does not fully enjoy the approval of the medical union .Strictly speaking, a migrant is a strong and prolonged pain head, which can be total or partial and almost completely rendered useless to the affected person; but some doctors, especially pediatricians, consider that the term could be extended from the neurological condition to other pains that present similar symptoms, especially in childhood.
Seen from that angle, an abdominal migraine would become a Intense pain in the area around the navel with a duration that could be from one hour to several days.As in "head" migraines, these pains can be accompanied by cramps, vomiting and nausea.
Dr. Ishaq Abu-Arafeh , a specialist in childhood headache and pediatrician at Royal Forth Valley Hospital in Lambert, Scotland, is in favor of this vision:
«Probably better look at the migrana as a syndrome rather than as a type of headache, and the migraine syndrome in childhood can have different presentations in different age groups.”
Abu-Arafeh believes that it is possible to detect children who are going to suffer from migrana ab since childhood, since then they begin to present frequent colic, dizziness and vomiting.
We do not know if you are going to believe this, but there is an American Headache and Migraine Association , and its president and co-founder, Teri Robert, has stated that abdominal migraines usually occur between five and ten years of age ; These pains can affect up to 15% of the child population and are more common if one of the parents also suffered them in their childhood.

Although it is not known with certainty what the causes may be of abdominal migraine, several studies point to the following suspects: emotional stress, tiredness, dizziness caused by intense movements, food with monosodium glutamate or nitrites, chocolate and other foods.
This pain may occur less frequently in adolescents and adults, and in those cases it can be treated with strong painkillers, which would be contraindicated for children , for which each mother in the world has some particular treatment, ranging from the use of aspirin to infusions of star anise, almost always accompanied by the A kind of carcinous regano, in the style of: “I told you that you shouldn't eat so much chocolate.”
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