Children who have headaches everyday will probably outgrow them by the time they are in their early 20s, according to new research from Taiwan. Eighty-eight percent of children who were studied outgrew their headaches.
- Dr. Shuu Jian Wang of the Taipel Veterans Hospital followed 122 children, starting at ages 12 to 14 years old, for eight years.
- All the children had daily tension-type headaches.
- By the time they were 21 years old, just 12 percent were still having daily headaches.
- Dr. Wang said no one knows why their headaches stopped.
Dr. Amy Goldstein, a neurologist at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, said the study is cause for hope among parents. "Even without a major intervention, the majority will get better," Goldstein said. "For a lot of my patients, they feel like the headache pain is never going to go away, but the message here is it can get better over time."
The study was published in the journal
Neurology.
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