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Because most children that are able to express themselves with words have complained at some time of headache, many parents have worried about something serious occurring in their child's head. Headache is a cause of physical pain for the child and anxiety for the parents, who don't know what is producing it, how to relieve it, or if it is going to continue for long or go away soon. The situation can be worrisome for the whole family. Headaches in children are not rare, but fortunately seldom are serious. the are serious, for example, when they occur as a consequence of an intracranial infection or a brain tumor; they are not important when the headache is migrainous, but in either situation, ignorance or uncertainty makes the parents as well as the child suffer.With medical progress, modern medical technology and especially with neuroradiological methods of diagnosis, it is possible today, in most cases, to determine the real cause of the headache in children with intracranial tumors, hydrocephalus, brain abscesses, etc. and to localize with precision where the lesion is located. When there are no such lesions, parents and child are relieved, but he doctor is left with the obligation that Dr. Leonardo Garcia-Mendez has clearly exposed in this monograph: to explain in detail how the child is investigated, why headaches occur, how they are treated and what is their prognosis. Parents have the right and the obligation to know in detail the problem affecting their child and its solution. Unfortunately the doctor is not always at hand. Parents are often left without answer to their multiple and important questions. Dr. Leonardo Garcia-Mendez knows very well how to answer those questions because of his excellent neurological training and great clinical experience. Because of this, the book he has prepared is of help, not only for children and their parents, but also for doctors, who having so much to explain to parents often don't have the time to do it. With their questions about headaches unanswered, they may be left with very little or no satisfaction. Thus, this book, as the precedent one "Seizures and Convulsions in Infants, Children and Adolescents" of Dr. Leonardo Garcia-Mendez are coming to fill an empty space in the medical information literature for parents of affected children and other "consumers". The English-speaking community is very lucky to have it available. I hope this can soon be translated to other languages. Dr.
Manuel R. Gomez |
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