{"id":25,"date":"2010-08-30T14:10:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T20:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muchildhealth.wordpress.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2010-08-30T14:10:41","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T20:10:41","slug":"melatonin-for-headache-in-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.muhealth.org\/muchildhealth\/melatonin-for-headache-in-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Melatonin for headache in children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[slideshare id=5279805&amp;doc=ebm-headaches-100924152820-phpapp01]<\/p>\n<p><strong>PICO question:<\/strong><br \/>\nDoes Melatonin have a role in treating chronic headaches in the pediatric population?<br \/>\nP: Pediatric population with chronic headaches (migraine or otherwise)<br \/>\nI: Melatonin<br \/>\nC: Continued care with routine headache therapy<br \/>\nO: Improvement in baseline intensity, frequency or duration of headaches<\/p>\n<p><strong>Article:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/18810607\">Melatonin to prevent migraine or tension-type headache in children<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bottom line:<\/strong>Although this was a small non-blinded, non-randomized trial, it is suggestive that melatonin may be a safe and effective intervention for children with multiple forms of chronic headaches.  Advances need to be made with a RCT in this area for stronger evidence in the future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reviewer:<\/strong> Dr. Sarah Lallaman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[slideshare id=5279805&amp;doc=ebm-headaches-100924152820-phpapp01] PICO question: Does Melatonin have a role in treating chronic headaches in the pediatric population? P: Pediatric population with chronic headaches (migraine or otherwise) I: Melatonin C: Continued care with routine headache therapy O: Improvement in baseline intensity, frequency or duration of headaches Article: Melatonin to prevent migraine or tension-type headache in children [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-melatonin","category-neurologic-disorders"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.muhealth.org\/muchildhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.muhealth.org\/muchildhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.muhealth.org\/muchildhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.muhealth.org\/muchildhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.muhealth.org\/muchildhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.muhealth.org\/muchildhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.muhealth.org\/muchildhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.muhealth.org\/muchildhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.muhealth.org\/muchildhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}