Sodas Can Give Kids Chronic Headaches

If your child suffers from chronic headaches and migraines, then you may want to check if he or she may be drinking too many caffeinated sodas.

There's an easy way to find out if it's the caffeine and that's to stop the sodas and any other beverage that contains caffeine. Once the caffeine stops, so will the headaches and migraines if they were caffeine related.

One word of warning - you need to gradually wean you child off the caffeine beverages by reducing the amount by one-quarter per week. Withdrawing too quickly can also cause headaches.

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Myths And Truths About Migraines

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Have you experienced a migraine headache? Here are some of the myths and the truths about migraines:

1. Myth: Migraines are just bad headaches.
Truth: Migraines are far worse than a bad headache. They are characterized by throbbing head pain, nausea and sensitivity to light and sound. Attacks can last from 4 to 72 hours. Also, if both your parents have migraines, there is a 75% chance that you will have them, too. If it’s one parent, then the odds are 50%. Even if a distant relative has them, the odds are 20% you’ll get them.

2. Myth: I’ll know a migraine if I get one and over-the-counter drugs will fix it.
Truth: The research shows that half of all people who get migraines have not been properly diagnosed by a doctor, whether it’s because they haven’t gone to a doctor or the doctor missed the diagnosis. If the store-bought pain or allergy medication you are taking isn’t working to decrease headache pain, talk to your doctor.

3. Myth: Migraines are caused by stress and other psychological problems.
Truth: Migraines are a neurological disorder and not a psychological one. Scientists now believe that the intense pain of a migraine attack is a result of inflammation caused by an interaction between the main sensory nerve of the brain and the brain’s blood vessels. While stress may trigger that response, it’s not the cause of the migraines.

4. Myth: Before a migraine you will see an aura.
Truth: Not everyone experiences visual symptoms before a migraine. Only 1/3 of migraine sufferers see an aura beforehand. If you do experience visual symptoms or auras, they may show up 15 minutes to an hour before the migraine hits.

5. Myth: Avoiding certain foods, like chocolate, can cure a migraine.
Truth: You may be able to curb the frequency of migraines by avoiding anything that triggers them, but eliminating these foods won’t cure you of migraines.

See a list of the most common > trigger foods, or email me at Jerry@Teplitz.com and put migraine trigger foods in the subject line.

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Drug For ADHD Kids Causing Them To Be Shorter And Thinner

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Researchers from Children’s Hospital Boston analyzed 22 studies examining the growth rates of ADHD kids taking prescribed stimulants such as Ritalin. They found that reduced appetite, a side effect of the drugs, negatively impacted the children’s expected weight and height gains.

While the kids may overcome any limitations in height and weight after they go off the drugs in early adulthood, keep in mind that these drugs, like cocaine and methamphetamine, fall into the DEA’s Schedule II designation, i.e., substances controlled because of their dependency, physical/psychological effects or likelihood for abuse in usage (per Wikipedia). In addition, no one is certain how this weight and height reduction is affecting brain development in these children.

So… reducing the reliance on drugs for kids with ADHD may produce the best long-term result for them. You can search the Teplitz Report archives at http://www.teplitz.com/ezine.htm for alternatives to Ritalin.