7 Year Old Has Headaches

My youngest son gets headaches from time to time. Lately he's been getting them more frequently. I know he isn't faking them because he will come in from playing outside and lay down. He LOVES playing outside. I can also see it in and around his eyes when he hurts. It worries me because I've had horrible migraines since I was a young girl, and now have to take daily preventive medication for migraines (and I stil get them frequently anyway). I'm hoping he doesn't follow in my footsteps. You know your son best. Some children do fake illnesses, but many times they are really sick or in pain. You will be the best judge of that.

Hard to know - my 5 year old has recently started saying she has a headache but isn't consistent with her descriptions. It seems she agrees with anything I say. I think letting your doctor talk to him at his check-up is a great idea!

anyone can get headaches. There really is no way to know if he is faking or not... which is the bad thing for parents about headaches. But it is possible. It could be his eyes that are giving him headaches but more likely it is from his spine. You should take him to see a good chiropractor. One that does a full examination and takes xrays if needed. They will then be able to tell you if his headaches are coming from his spine being misaligned. Everyone gets a misalignment of the spine (subluxation is the chiropractic term for it) that causes pressure on the nerve system which can cause headaches and other more serious problems as well. By the way.... MDs look for different things in spinal xrays then chiropractors do.
Hope this helps:)

My daughter used to get headaches around this age and a little older. She'd also get stomach aches sometimes. These were all non-descript symptoms, pretty vague. I think they were caused by stress. (Mean girls on the playground.) She also experienced a few months of very frequent urination or just the urge to go when she had just already gone. (The pediatric urologist said this was extremely common and not a worry.) For the headaches and the stomach aches, I would just have her lie down to relax and give her a cup of chamomile & mint tea with some honey and a splash of milk. Chamomile is very soothing and mint is good for stomach problems. Even if the herbs didn't do anything to help her, I felt better knowing that I was doing something to help her. Plus, the tea could have had a placebo effect. Sometimes I also drew a warm bubble bath for her to relax in. Good luck.

my 7 year old had headaches for about a month ...took him to the dr and it ended up being a sinus infection!