When you think of migraines, head pain likely comes to mind. A migraine is a neurological disease that can bring on nausea, vomiting and light sensitivity. Its main symptom is agonizing head pain. But, it turns out, this ailment can inflict the abdomen as well, particularly in children.
“[Abdominal migraines] are fairly common and pretty underdiagnosed,” says Lindsay Elton, a pediatric neurologist in Austin, Texas. “Families will come in and say they thought their kid was getting a lot of stomach bugs, but it was happening too regularly for that to make sense.”
