First migraines and now cluster headaches have been quickly and effectively defeated by a new disposable nasal spray, already available in the United States and also coming to Italy.
After 10 minutes you start feel better and then 30 Yes is free from pain. Once the first fraction of active ingredient has rapidly entered the circulation, a second is absorbed at the gastrointestinal level with consequent maintenance of the therapeutic effect, an important factor for those suffering from cluster headaches. In addition to the fundamental need to get rid of pain as soon as possible, there is in fact the need to prevent it from recurring with the characteristic resurgence of the attacks which occurs in the cluster stage.
Characteristics of cluster headache
The new drug was presented at the “Focus on Headaches: update and upcoming developments” (the Stresa Congress organized by the Headache Center of the Carlo Besta Neurological Institute of Milan) by Professor Alan Rapoport of the UCLA School of Medicine in Los Angeles and new President of the IHS-International Headache Society.
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He has one formulation based on zolmitriptan which, proved effective against migraines, has also given positive results in the treatment of cluster headache.
So painful to be defined “from suicide“. “The attack of cluster headache it’s a such an unbearable event that some patients have even attempted to take their own lives to end it ”, explains Professor Gennaro Bussone, President of Anircef-Director of the Department of Neurological Sciences, Director of the Regional Center for Headaches and Atypical Facial Pain in Lombardy, Fondazione Istituto Neurologico IRCCS Carlo Besta of Milan.
“His attacks cluster in one to two month periods, sayings bunches, interspersed with several months of well-being, with daily pain (from one seizure every two days, up to eight seizures a day) duration between 15 and 180 minutes, which often appears at the same time and is strictly unilateral in the oculo-fronto-temporal area. It is violent, very intense, piercing, stabbing, described as a stab or a nail in the eye “.
It is accompanied by autonomic signs come tearing, conjunctival redness, nasal obstruction, runny nose (runny nose) and facial sweating. The person is agitated, irritable, in constant motion like “an animal in a cage” living in terror of the reappearance of painful crises. Hence, he needs other headaches more than one quick emergency treatment ed effective.