As part of a larger investigation into the subject of chronic abdominal pain in children we have conducted a preliminary survey on twelve children with ages ranging between 5 and 15 years. They all presented with a history of recurrent abdominal pain for a minimum of 3 months (Apley, 1975), but some had been symptomatic for more than 8 years. All had experienced nausea and/or vomiting combined with a family history of classical migraine. In addition, pallor (Liebman, 1978) was a feature in eleven of the patients during a migrainous attack. On this basis, a clinical diagnosis of abdominal migrain was established (see Table 1).
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