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Cluster Headaches Seizures
- Headaches: Cluster - Treatment
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- Cluster Headaches
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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...
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Headaches: Cluster: Cluster Headaches
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
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Headaches: Cluster: Managing Cluster Headaches
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
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Oxygen may ease cluster headaches
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