Headache without fever in children is related to physiological factors such as lack of sleep and mental overstress, and is also considered to be related to post-traumatic headache, epilepsy, glaucoma, intracranial tumors and so on.
1. Physiological factors: for the recent lack of sleep, mental overstress, excessive use of the brain of the child, easy to appear headache but not fever phenomenon.
2. Post-traumatic headache: headache can appear after the child’s head is traumatized, mostly accompanied by concussion, and the headache can sometimes last for days or even months. If the child only has a headache, no other discomfort and a history of head injury, we need to be alert to this possibility.
3. Epilepsy: long-term intermittent headache with convulsions: the possibility of epilepsy should be noted.
4. Glaucoma: the disease is associated with increased intraocular pressure, heredity, myopia and other factors. Typical symptoms of patients include eye swelling, eye pain, eyelid spasm, photophobia, tearing, blurred vision, headache, nausea and vomiting, etc. It can also be manifested as headache without fever in children.
5. Intracranial tumor: when children suffer from intracranial tumor, headache can also occur due to stimulation or compression of brain tissues, nerves and blood vessels, but without fever. Intracranial tumors are related to heredity and exposure to harmful chemical substances, etc. Patients are also prone to nausea and vomiting, vision loss, insomnia and dreaming, numbness of limbs and other symptoms.
Parents are advised to take their children with headache without fever to the doctor for timely examination so that the disease can be clarified and treated according to the doctor’s instructions.