Introduction:

headache is one of the most common reasons for consultation for which people go to medical services, it is an important cause of disability, which brings with it consequences on a personal level.

Objective:

to evaluate the use of the clinical method in the diagnosis of headache of ophthalmic cause in pediatric age.

Method:

an observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study was carried out of 192 patients who attended the Ophthalmology Emergency Services at the Hermanos Cordové Pediatric Hospital, in the period between January and December 2019. The variables were studied: age and sex, school education, personal pathological history, headache characteristics and presumptive diagnosis.

Results:

there was a predominance of female patients between 6 and 7 years of age, attending primary school, without personal pathological history, with a headache of subacute onset, episodic, which affects daily activities, which appears at any time of the day, accompanied mainly of visual disturbances and nausea and vomiting, prevailing as a presumptive diagnosis migraine headache.

Conclusions:

It was shown that the highest percentage of patients who attended the ophthalmology emergency department for headache, this was not related to ophthalmological disorders.

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