Child headache

Headache is a symptom caused by physical and biological factors in the head's nociceptors. It is clinically very common. It is estimated that 1 in 10 children or 1 in 4 adolescents suffer from headaches, which seriously affects children's education and parents' work. Harm to children's health, psychological and emotional development. However, there is currently insufficient awareness of it and no formal treatment is available. In particular, the current transitional examination has increased the patient's financial burden, intense study, fierce competition for further studies, and increasing incidence, but in terms of migraine, the prevalence is 1.5-2% in European and American countries, 0.73% in China. 10-15% in European and American countries, 0.06% in China. According to the latest statistics, the overall prevalence rate for one year is 11%. 6% are male and 15% -18% are female. Lifetime prevalence is at least 18%, 18% of children 13 to 15 years old have tension headaches, and 7% have migraine headaches, so child headaches are already a public health problem.

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