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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 14 Advances in diagnosis and treatment of children with migraine [Keywords:] children; migraine headaches Migraine is a common childhood neurological disorders, mainly for the serious or frequent headache attack, the disease occurred in the school age, which can cause lack of concentration, memory loss and other symptoms, serious impact on children’s learning and life, so has drawn increasing attention. However, due to the limitations of current diagnostic criteria, the characteristics of their own children with migraine, patients and their families could easily lead to missed diagnosis and misdiagnosis of neglect, leading to improper treatment and the effect of poor physical and mental health of children severely affected. This article aims to review progress of the latest research abroad, and thus the diagnosis and treatment of migraine children to help. A diagnosis of migraine Most children can be asked about the history of migraine, the main symptoms, physical examination and relevant laboratory examinations to make the right diagnosis. 1.1 The history of migraine has long been noted in some families there tend to focus on disease, the genetic basis of as children as part of the pathophysiology of migraine has been set forth a variety of ways, such as retrospective studies, surveys and twin family studies, gene polymorphism and migraine subtype identification of specific genes [1]. In addition, the early occurrence of physical disorders and headaches, mental disorders and headaches later persistence have some relationship, life events may the progress of some children with headache have some impact, environmental and psychological factors in children with primary headache, especially the occurrence of pre-school children play an important role on the [2,3]. 1.2 The clinical features of migraine is episodic, mostly unilateral, and in severe, pulsating like headache, usually last 4 ~ 72 h, may be accompanied by nausea, v