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Overview & Facts
When is a headache a migraine? How can you tell? The WebMD Migraine/Headache Guide will help you take the first steps toward finding relief for you or your child.
What Is a Migraine?
Get basic information for managing various types of chronic headaches.
Migraines can cause severe pain. Learn more about their triggers and how to treat them.
Children’s headaches occur for the same reasons adults get headaches. See how they are evaluated and diagnosed in children and adolescents.
Get answers to frequent concerns about headaches and migraines. Read about the role of caffeine and pain relievers as causes of headaches.
Causes
More women suffer from migraines. Menstrual migraines or hormone headaches -- female hormones are to blame.
Find out what triggers migraine headaches. Then take control by learning the causes.
Improved sleeping habits can reduce migraine headaches. See how.
Overweight children and teens are more likely than thinner youngsters to have more frequent and severe headaches.
Many drugs can induce headaches; find out if your medication is on this list.
Are You at Risk?
Stress can lead to health risks. Learn about the stress-headache link, what it means to you, and how to manage stress.
Exercise and sex may seem like strange bedfellows, but both trigger headaches.
Is dinner causing dismal migraines? Learn what to avoid and get tips on controlling migraine food triggers.
If you’re sensitive, smoking and secondhand smoke can ignite frequent and sometime severe headaches.
Caffeine can serve as a treatment for headaches or cause caffeine headaches from withdrawal. See how.
Prevention
Don’t just put up with them. Learn how to prevent migraine headaches and treat them.
Researchers test a device that might stop migraine headaches by sending short bursts of magnetic energy to the brain.
