For non-alcoholic holiday headaches, what’s the best medicine?
The range of treatment includes everything from over-the-counter analgesics to stronger prescription drugs. For people suffering from migraine headaches, there are already many excellent drugs, such as ergotamine, DHE and Midrin. And, of course, sumatriptan and the new sumatriptan look-alikes. These medications stop pain and nausea in 70-80% of the migraine sufferers studied, even when the headache has been present for many hours. They may also help people with other types of headaches.
