ArticleBMJ case reports2016
Vitamin D deficiency mimicking chronic tension-type headache in children.
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- Current Trends in Pediatric Migraine: Clinical Insights and Therapeutic Strategies.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Vitamin D in Central Nervous System: Implications for Neurological Disorders.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- [Complementary and supplementary procedures in the treatment of headache].Schmerz (Berlin, Germany) · 2023Review
- The Vitamin D Role in Preventing Primary Headache in Adult and Pediatric Population.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Review
- Management of Chronic Migraine in Children and Adolescents: A Brief Discussion on Preventive Therapies.Paediatric drugs · 2020Review
- 25-Hydroxy Vitamin D Detection Using Different Analytic Methods in Patients with Migraine.Journal of clinical medicine · 2019Article
- Vitamin D deficiency in patients with cluster headache: a preliminary study.The journal of headache and pain · 2018Article
- Low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D is associated with higher risk of frequent headache in middle-aged and older men.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Is Vitamin D Deficiency Implicated in Autonomic Dysfunction?Journal of pediatric neurosciencesReview
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Abstract
Headache, musculoskeletal pain and vitamin D deficiency, with possible inter-relationship, are common in the general population. We report cases of three premenarchal girls presenting with chronic tension-type headache and generalised body pain. The patients did not show any response to conventional therapy for tension headache. Investigations showed a severe vitamin D deficiency and biochemical osteomalacia in all three patients. The headaches and musculoskeletal pain responded markedly to vitamin D therapy. We suggest that musculoskeletal pain and headache together in a patient may be part of a single symptom complex, with vitamin D deficiency being the possible cause.
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