Question:
My eight year old son suffers from migraines. The local hospital advised us to cut the chocolate, cheese, cola and yeast extract from his diet. We did this once, but gets headaches twice a month. painkillers help, but I wonder if cranial osteopathy is inappropriate. He had a traumatic birth, which provides fast, forceps.
Answer:
migraines usually begin around puberty around, are rare in children. Iwonder if your son is suffering from headaches, migraines instead. Migraine is the Worten''Hemi ', ie half, and "skull", ie the skull, which means that the headache is always unilateral. Atypical migraines, which can be very stressful, take formore than 24 hours and is accompanied by Symptoms include having:
* An aura visual disturbances prior to an attack
* A premonition - you know, the attack will
* Sensitivity to light orSound so bad you want to backtrack,
* Nausea and vomiting.
Your child's birth and rapid forceps is the most likely cause of his problem, because the crushed skull and the cervical canal, often damaged the baby's head, passes quickly through the birth. Tweezers can also damage the base of the skull and neck. Hence the vertebrae of the neck is always wrong. If this happens, blood flow to the brain is affected because the vertebral arteries, whichreceived a pair of bony, fibrous internal channels in the spine crushed. The neck muscles can also result due to stress and tension, and this results in further reduction of blood flow.
Another potential problem relates to the supply of vital oxygen and glucose to the brain. The brain and CSF, bathed in circulating glucose and oxygen. Contracts skull to push and build a dozen times a minute all the liquid, but the neck muscles and closeskull wrong can undermine this process. The result is that the brain is not enough glucose and begins to hurt.
There are several other possible causes of headaches such as grinding of teeth at night. This traumatized the joints of the jaw in front of the ear Lodge is, and can be very painful. The pain radiates from the temples, causing a severe headache. blocked sinuses and not necessarily include a runny nose can also be the trigger. These are generally considered inthe front of the head. They tend to be worse in the morning, and even the sun.
Other causes include allergy foods, dehydration, constipation, low blood pressure and eye fatigue due to visual impairment. I am sure that the doctor had checked for this, and even the remote possibility of a brain tumor. It 'also possible to suffer rebound headaches from analgesics: The brain loves the analgesia produced headache and get more.
If your child has had a check with yourDoctor, I propose the following general treatment:
* Cranial Osteopathy is very useful.
* Drink at least six glasses a day of pure water. between meals.
* Eating preferably fresh, healthy organic food.
* Avoid citrus fruits, chocolate and sugary foods, cheese, ice cream, soft drinks, Marmite, tinned food and fast food.
* Take your child lying on his back, then massage the sides of the neck and shoulders with a lifestyle a little oil for five minutes every other nightBedtime. Then put a towel under the flat head with his hands behind his head cupping. Now he is asked to breathe slowly and steadily and gently pull the head from his shoulders. The pull is sweet improve sleep headaches and help him, well.
* Check for clogged sinuses points on the inner edge of the eyebrows. Pain means sinuses are blocked. Place two drops of oil into each nostril of the breast, being read.
* Check the joints of the jaw in front of his ear. Ifare soft, massage regularly.
* Make sure that sleeping on a soft pillow and spends little time on the computer every day.
* Practicing yoga therapy with your child, especially the cobra, bridge, and semi-swing pose. These are explained in the book Yoga therapy.
