Editorial

Nutraceuticals for the prevention of migraine in children: Do we know what the benefits and the risks are? Tamara Pringsheim1,2 and W Jeptha Davenport1,2,3 Children with headache have limited evidence-based preventive options. When pharmacological measures are considered, it is not surprising that children are using agents considered to be complementary and alter-native in dealing with their headaches. Unfortunately, the use of many of these (and other) headache prevent-ives has outpaced the research which may show clear evidence for their use, or, equally possibly, for their inefficacy. Recognition of the current situation should serve both as a call for more research using well-designed, double-blind, randomized control trials i