Health Tip: Managing Your Child's Migraines

(HealthDay News) -- If your child gets migraine headaches, the American Academy of Family Physicians offers these suggestions to help prevent them:

• Make sure your child eats meals on a regular schedule, and never skips a meal.
• Keep your child on a regular sleep schedule.
• Make sure your child gets daily exercise, but don''t overdo it.
• Figure out what triggers migraines in your child, and try to avoid those factors. Common triggers include stress, too much intense exercise, or changes in weather or altitude.
• Avoid foods that are known to trigger your child''s migraines. Popular culinary causes include: cheese, processed meats, chocolate, caffeine, nuts, pickles and foods high in the preservative monosodium glutamate (MSG).

-- Diana Kohnle

Last Updated: Aug. 07, 2008

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