J Korean Child Neurol Soc.  2012 Dec;20(4):221-227.

The Study on Car Sickness in Pediatric Migraineurs

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  • 1Department of Pediatrics, Samsung Changwon Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School, Changwon, Korea. pedikyung@yahoo.co.kr

Abstract

PURPOSE
The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether the symptoms of migraine and car sickness coexist or not. In addition, we tried to elucidate whether the car sickness can be a clinical indicator of diagnosing migraine in children.
METHODS
A total of 166 children and adolescents who had newly diagnosed migraine and followed up for more than 2 years after the termination of treatment were involved in the study. The co-morbidity or co-existence of symptoms between two conditions in the clinical course was investigated.
RESULTS
Sixty three of 124 who had car sickness as well as migraine recovered from migraine. Among these 63 patients, the car sickness disappeared in 44 (69.8%), decreased in 7 (11.1%) and persisted in 12 (19.0%). On the other hand, 23 of those 124 migraineurs continued to have migraine. In these patients, car sickness disappeared in 4 (17.4%), decreased in 5 (21.7%) and persisted in 14 (60.9%). The freedom or alleviation of car sickness is more common in children free from migraine than in children with persistent migraine (P<0.001).
CONCLUSION
The results suggest that migraine is closely related to car sickness in children and the clinical course of migraine generally overlaps those of car sickness. We therefore believe that car sickness can be a clinical indicator in the diagnosis of migraine.

Keyword

Migraine; Car sickness

MeSH Terms

Adolescent
Child
Freedom
Hand
Humans
Migraine Disorders
Motion Sickness
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