• Headaches: Cluster - Treatment
• Highlights
• Introduction
• Cluster Headaches
• Causes
• Prognosis
• Risk Factors

Managing Cluster Headaches

Management of cluster headaches focuses on:

• Acute therapy for stopping an attack while it is happening
• Preventive therapy for stopping or reducing attack recurrences

Treating Attacks

The most effective and best-studied treatments for a cluster attack are:

• Oxygen inhalation.
• Triptan drugs. Usually an injection of the triptan drug sumatriptan (Imitrex), which is FDA-approved for cluster headache treatment. Intranasal formulations of sumatriptan or zolmitriptan (Zomig) are...