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MOTION SICKNESS IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH NEUROLOGIC COMORBIDITIES

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INTRODUCTION: Motion sickness or intolerance to movements is the occurrence of signs or symptoms of conflict in the sensory perception of stimuli from the proprioceptive and vestibular sys-tems. Results in a number of symptoms including nausea, vomiting, dizziness and heada-che. The literature on motion sickness in adults is extensive due to its medical mission for military and space travel. In contrast, the pediatric population has not been well studied. This is surprising given that the prevalence of motion sickness in children to be higher than in adults. The difficulty of studies in this area and a lack of understanding this illness’s etiology and its comorbidities can impact the course of the disease. An example of this are some neurological diseases that can be etiologically correlated as an aggrava-ting the development of motion sickness. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the occurrence and characteristics of motion sickness in neuropediatric patients with followed up in a university hospital in northeastern of Brazil. METHOD: It is an observational, analytical, cross-sectional study. All sex patients, younger than 18-years-old, with a previous diagnosis of a neurological disease, regularly followed up at neuropediatrics service were included. Preg-nant women and patients with severe systemic diseases were not selected. Data were collected through digital forms to analize: sociodemographic factors, predictable diagno-ses, susceptible to motion sickness and presence of headache. The Motion sickness sus-ceptibility questionnaire (MSSQ) was Applied. The study had ethics committee approval. RESULTS: The preliminary sample contains 70 patients, 35% of these presented motion sickness; 34% of patients are within the autistic spectrum (ASD) and of these 15.4% had motion sickness; 12% of patients have a diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disor-der (ADHD, and 30%of these had motion sickness; 20% of the sample has epilepsy, of which 30% had motion sickness; From the sample, 15% of migraine patients and of these 55% have motion sickness. CONCLUSION: The preliminary findings of our research demonstrated a high prevalence of motion sickness in children and adolescentes with neu-ropediatric disorders. Even children with behavioral disorders, motion sickness could be verified by the parents' perception through the specific questionnaire (MSSQ). Our study also corroborates the literature on associative aspects of motion sickness with a previous diagnosis of migraine.

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MOTION SICKNESS. NEUROPEDIATRIC PATIENTS. MIGRAINE. CHILDRENS.

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Neurologia Infantil