Colic
Colic – defined as inconsolable crying in an otherwise healthy infant for more than three hours a day, for more than three days a week, for three weeks or more – has long been a puzzle for doctors and an exhausting ordeal for parents. So when Anna Zanin, a pediatrician in Paris, noticed that babies with colic and children with migraine share certain symptoms, she decided to explore a possible association between the two conditions. Her research found that 73 percent of children with migraine were colicky babies compared to 27 percent of controls. While Zanin emphasizes that further evidence is needed to determine whether there is a causal link, the numbers suggest that migraine and colic may indeed be related.