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WHY on earth are people suggesting giving ASPIRIN to a CHILD? Even if the post is 8 years old.
You can not give aspirin to a child.
That is not strictly true. It is still approved for use in children, although it should never be used to treat fever, pain from a viral infection, etc. In those cases where an infection is suspected, acetaminophen or ibuprofen should always be used. Hopefully any parent would be discussing treatment options with a physician anyway; however, a child with regular migraines is not likely to be getting them due to infections or fever.
That is not strictly true. It is still approved for use in children, although it should never be used to treat fever, pain from a viral infection, etc. In those cases where an infection is suspected, acetaminophen or ibuprofen should always be used. Hopefully any parent would be discussing treatment options with a physician anyway; however, a child with regular migraines is not likely to be getting them due to infections or fever.
Never give aspirin to a child under 18 (some say under 21) w/o a physician's guidance. I worked in a pediatrician's office for 11 years 2004-2015, and I never once saw aspirin recommended. The kid in question needs to see a physician. There is no point to fiddling with diet, meds, etc on your own with no medical advice.
One of my daughters is 6, and for the past 3 weeks or so, she's been getting pretty bad migraine type headaches at least once every 4 days or so (to the point where she can't even read a book, watch movies, etc for any more than a few minutes at a time). They normally happen in the mornings, and can last up to 8 hours or so.
I haven't taken her to the doctor yet, but I have tried things like Childrens Tylenol, and it lessens the migraine a little bit, but definitely doesn't make it go away.
Does anyone have any experience with this or what might be causing it? I'll definitely be taking her to the doctor one day this week, but until I can get her into the pediatrician I was wondering if anyone had any insight into this.
Thanks!
Well I don't have a kid with headaches but I sure am battling one myself this morning.
When I was her age like 7 or so I started getting them.
They'd hit and I would get nauseous, the pain would have me on the floor in the bathroom, throwing up, crying in pain.
Back then I used to hop in a hot shower after taking two Advil and as I sat in the tub with the shower running I'd sip on a soda.
Now I just used a heated neck wrap and extra strength headache medicine.
This post is over 7 years old, but people are obviously still reading it, so I will add to it My younger brother started getting vicious headaches like this when he was around 6 yo. He had an MRI and everything. They were diagnosed as "just" being migraines (just migraines versus a brain tumor or something like that). He eventually learned to manage them to some degree. When I was about 22 (and he was 19), he helped me through my first migraine.
I have three kids, and one occasionally gets very bad headaches. I don't know that they are migraines, but they are very intense and wipe him out. Luckily, they are rare.
Well I don't have a kid with headaches but I sure am battling one myself this morning.
When I was her age like 7 or so I started getting them.
They'd hit and I would get nauseous, the pain would have me on the floor in the bathroom, throwing up, crying in pain.
Back then I used to hop in a hot shower after taking two Advil and as I sat in the tub with the shower running I'd sip on a soda.
Now I just used a heated neck wrap and extra strength headache medicine.
Does that work for you?
If it doesn't, and with the nausea and pain level it sounds like it might by a migraine rather than a headache, there are a number of migraine medications available nowadays (although they are prescription) that work very well.
If the neck/wrap and extra strength work - then good for you.
My son has this. He took some migraine preventing medicine for a while and it seemed to help. Now he still gets them but rarely. He went more than a year, possibly more than three years without getting one. Last Saturday he spent the day laying on the floor howling in pain and throwing up from the pain. It came from nowhere and after about 4 hours disappeared.
They have done all the stuff, MRIs brain scans ect. They looked at allergies, too much screen time, vision issues, diet, they could not find anything. It appears it is just something he has to live with.
Has he tried sumatriptan?
Very effective in a lot of migraine sufferers. Its not a preventative - you take it once a migraine starts. While it does nothing to a normal headache it will wipe out a migraine for many people (some, unfortunately, are non-responders).
This is crazy but it happened to me around that age, and again around 12. MY DENTIST Figured it out. I had molars coming in that were pinching or pushing on a nerve. They were debilitating. You can google it, there's a connection. It's possible it's nothing serious and it's just dental related.
Just in case people are still looking at this thread for a bit of advice...by all means the child needs to see the doctor. I hate to be an alarmist, but our son had this problem at around the same age. Apparently he was being sent to the nurse's office at school almost daily for headaches, and I wasn't told about it! He was only a first grader at the time.
One morning when I went to wake him up for school, he was seizing...and it had been going on for quite a while. There was a pile of foamy saliva next to his mouth. He had never had a seizure before, let alone status epilepticus, where it doesn't stop on its own. He had had one of those headaches just the night before. He was stabilized in the ambulance, and the seizing stopped. Thankfully, there was no abnormality found, and he was put on anti-seizure medication and followed up with visits to a neurologist after hospitalization. No more headaches after that, and it's still a mystery as to why. No further seizures, and there seemed to be no permanent damage, thank goodness.
Just in case people are still looking at this thread for a bit of advice...by all means the child needs to see the doctor. I hate to be an alarmist, but our son had this problem at around the same age. Apparently he was being sent to the nurse's office at school almost daily for headaches, and I wasn't told about it! He was only a first grader at the time.
One morning when I went to wake him up for school, he was seizing...and it had been going on for quite a while. There was a pile of foamy saliva next to his mouth. He had never had a seizure before, let alone status epilepticus, where it doesn't stop on its own. He had had one of those headaches just the night before. He was stabilized in the ambulance, and the seizing stopped. Thankfully, there was no abnormality found, and he was put on anti-seizure medication and followed up with visits to a neurologist after hospitalization. No more headaches after that, and it's still a mystery as to why. No further seizures, and there seemed to be no permanent damage, thank goodness.
^^This. These threads drive me crazy. "Needs glasses, go to the dentist, use essential oils, allergies, ask for this prescription drug, take this OTC drug", etc. Take the child to their pediatrician, their regular one. S/he can then direct the care if the child needs to see an allergist or any other specialist. Ask questions about all these things if you wish.
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My younger brother started getting vicious headaches like this when he was around 6 yo. He had an MRI and everything. They were diagnosed as "just" being migraines (just migraines versus a brain tumor or something like that). He eventually learned to manage them to some degree. When I was about 22 (and he was 19), he helped me through my first migraine. 
