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Cefaleia enxaquecosa em crianças

Last reviewed: 19 Mar 2025
Last updated: 24 Aug 2023

Summary

Definition

History and exam

Key diagnostic factors

  • presença de fatores de risco
  • idade >2 anos
  • início gradativo da cefaleia
  • exame físico normal
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Other diagnostic factors

  • aura
  • náuseas e/ou vômitos
  • distúrbio visual
  • fonofobia
  • cefaleia occipital, ataxia, diplopia, visão turva, vertigem e zumbido
  • sinais sensoriais ou motores unilaterais e cefaleia
  • ptose
  • convulsão generalizada
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Risk factors

  • história familiar positiva de enxaqueca
  • chocolate, queijo e frutas cítricas
  • estresse
  • alterações hormonais
  • álcool e cafeína
  • depleção de volume
  • uso excessivo de analgésicos
  • perturbação do sono
  • luzes claras ou cintilantes
  • síndromes periódicas
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Diagnostic tests

1st tests to order

  • nenhum exame inicial
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Tests to consider

  • tomografia computadorizada/ressonância nuclear magnética (TC/RNM) cranioencefálicas
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Treatment algorithm

ACUTE

episódio agudo

ONGOING

a frequência e a intensidade do ataque têm impacto na qualidade de vida e na assiduidade escolar

Contributors

Authors

Nick Barnes, MBBS, BSc, MRCP, MRCPCH

Consultant Paediatrician

Northampton General Hospital

Northampton

UK

Disclosures

NB declares that he has no competing interests.

Peer reviewers

Kenneth Mack, MD, PhD

Medical Director

Mayo Clinic Pediatric Center

Rochester

MN

Disclosures

KM declares that he has no competing interests.

Tony McShane, MBBS

Consultant Paediatric Neurologist

John Radcliffe Hospital

Oxford

UK

Disclosures

TM declares that he has no competing interests.

Sandeep Jayawant, MBBS

Consultant Paediatric Neurologist

John Radcliffe Hospital

Oxford

UK

Disclosures

SJ declares that he has no competing interests.

Howard S. Jacobs, MD

Associate Professor

Co-Director Pediatric Headache Clinic

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Baltimore

MD

Disclosures

HSJ declares that he has no competing interests.

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