Journal of Pain & Relief
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Case Report

Headache Attributed to Airplane Travel in a Child-First Case in Brazil

Luara Lis Barbosa Boson¹, Lucas Aguiar Alencar Oliveira², Fernando Jacó Silva Moreira³, Mariana Leite Pereira³, Rayssa Fernandes Souza Coelho³, Allyson Coelho Ribeiro⁴, Augusto César Beserra Martins⁴, José Hugo Andrade Santos Dantas⁴, Isadora Costa Coelho Gayoso-Almendra⁴, Ítalo Araújo Rios Brandão⁴, July Lima Gomes⁴, Kamilla Gomes Sales Souza⁴, Laysa Moura Cardoso Leal⁴, Luís Gustavo Silva Bacelar Andrade⁴, Vanessa Nepomuceno Fonseca Meneses⁴, Adriana Almeida Soares⁵ and Raimundo Pereira Silva-Néto^6*

¹Department of Neurology, University Center Uninovafapi, Teresina, Brazil

²Department of Neurology, Federal University of Piauí, Teresina, Brazil

³Department of Neurology, State University of Piauí, Teresina, Brazil

⁴Department of Neurology, Facid/DeVry, Teresina, Brazil

⁵Center of Neurology and Headache of Piauí, Teresina, Brazil

⁶Department of Neurology, Federal University of Piauí, Teresina, Brazil

*Corresponding Author:

Raimundo Pereira Silva-Néto
Department of Neurology
Federal University of Piauí
Avenida Frei Serafim, 2280
Centro, Teresina, PI 64001-020, Brazil
Tel: + 55 86 3215-5696
E-mail: neurocefaleia@terra.com.br

Received date: March 24, 2017; Accepted date: March 28, 2017; Published date: March 30, 2017

Citation: Boson LLB, Oliveira LAA, Moreira FJS, Pereira ML, Coelho RFS, et al. (2017) Headache Attributed to Airplane Travel in a Child-First Case in Brazil. J Pain Relief 6:286. doi: 10.4172/2167-0846.1000286

Copyright: © 2017 Boson LLB, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Headache attributed to airplane travel (HAAT) is a rare form of headache disorder that develops exclusively during plane travel. HAAT is characterized by occurring during takeoff or landing or both and improves spontaneously within 30 minutes after the ascent or descent of the airplane is completed. We report the case of a 9- year-old Brazilian boy with recurrent episodes of headache without associated symptoms occurring during airplane travel, but only during landing. Paranasal sinus tomography and brain magnetic resonance imaging did not reveal barotrauma or inflammation of the paranasal sinuses or any brain injury. This case fulfilled the diagnostic criteria for HAAT. It appears that HAAT may occur without prior history of barotrauma or inflammation of the paranasal sinuses.

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