Infantile colic may be linked to childhood migraines | Health Blog

My child had the worst infant colic.?? The inconsolable crying was so bad that everyone at church recognized her ID number when it flashed behind the pulpit. The congregation was too keenly aware that the Sadler parents were being urgently notified to remove our child from the nursery.? Her crying must have set off fire alarms it was so loud.

It did not matter that I took care of healthy, ill, and needy infants in medical training and practice for many years prior to having children.? I had spent countless nights awake in the newborn nursery and intensive care centers listening patiently to perpetually crying infants waiting to be healed and held.?? But I knew what was wrong with them?they were sick. ?I was a rock. But, no 48-hour call days could ever have prepared me for the nerve-racking task of managing my colicky baby for the first two months of her life.? Just like Dr. Spock states in his newborn manuals, the colic does go away (eventually).? Thank goodness for selective amnesia (as my mother would say about my personal infantile colic). ?If I had remembered the severity of colic with my first child or known the colicky course would be repeated with my second child, I might never have decided to bear children again.

Colic has been gone for many yeas now as my children have grown into gorgeous teenagers. ?My mother was right when she told me that colicky months make for easier teen years.? My kids have been darn good teenagers up to this point.

But now, I wait for the other shoe to drop.? According to a recent study from the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), there is an association between childhood and adolescent migraine with kids who have had infantile colic.? The most common cause of headache in children, migraines can be very difficult to diagnose and terribly uncomfortable for the patient. Most importantly however, other causes of headache such as trauma, infection, tumor, etc. should be ruled out.

Fortunately, there are some very effective treatments for migraine, which is much more than can be said for the futile colic treatments available today.? Is it possible we could treat colic with similar therapies used for migraines?? Further studies are needed and hope is in our future.? Perhaps the ?colic curse ?will be treatable for future generations of my family and yours.? Who knows?it could result in expanded family numbers!

Source: http://healthblog.dallasnews.com/2013/04/infantile-colic-may-be-linked-to-teen-migraines.html/

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