Risk factors
By Mayo Clinic staffMany children who have cyclic vomiting syndrome have a family history of migraines or begin having migraines themselves when they get older. Abdominal migraine — a type of migraine more common in children — causes abdominal pain but not the severe vomiting associated with cyclic vomiting syndrome.
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