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Abstract Headache is a common symptom with a high prevalence in most epidemiological studies. Headache is one of the 10 most common reasons for outpatient physician visits. Children with headache, especially those with migraine, suffered from other pains and physical symptoms more frequently than headache-free children.Few differences in psychosocial factors were found.Prevalence of primary headaches were more than that of secondary headache (58.78%), most of them 44 patients (33.59%)were girls. the difference between girls and boys was significant.Types of primary headaches among the studied patients shows that migraine was the predominant type of all types of primary headaches. Throbbing headache character (28.08%) was significantly higher than other headache characters, this is because most of headaches are migraine headaches, which is different from a regular headache by pulsating and /or throbbing pain. |