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Kids Take Too Much Pain Medication for Headaches

Many kids and teens who get tension headaches or migraines are taking too much medication for the pain, and their parents don't realize it. More than 20 percent of the children and adolescents surveyed were overusing over-the-counter medications to relieve their headache pain, and researchers pointed out it's known that taking too much acetaminophen, ibuprofen or aspirin is not good for you. Twenty-two percent of the kids surveyed were over-using medication, which researchers defined as...