Ernährungstherapie nicht nur bei kindlichen Kopfschmerzen

Food intolerance is a well-known factor in functional headache in children. Severe migraine in children can be significantly mitigated by a strict diet. But in the long term, a simpler nutritional change seems to be more appropriate in order to achieve a long-lasting influence on children's headache. A nutritional change of at least 6 weeks' duration should reduce the headache frequency and intensity in the range of 50 % or more in order to be defined as successful. Not only migraine, but also tension-type headache respond in a relevant dimension to nutritional treatment. In case of higher migraine frequency combined with allergic comorbidity, the efficacy of the nutritional regime seems to be even more pronounced. In daily counselling, a combination of written information and a short personal explanation seems to represent a practicable procedure.