Medications for headaches
Headache is quite commona problem with which everyone cope in his own way: someone suffers, hoping that it will pass, someone is saved by people's means, someone drinks pills. If you prefer the latter method, keep in mind that there are various Cures for headaches, someone more suited alone, someone - others.
Before taking medicine for a headache,you need to understand why you have a headache. Often, a headache is just a symptom of an existing problem in the body, and even if you stop the attack of pain, it will eventually return, if not eliminate the root cause of its appearance. So that with chronic headaches, you need to see a doctor, which will determine their cause and prescribe treatment.
However, if the head gets sick suddenly, get tothe doctor in the near future at you does not work at all, and it is necessary to remove an attack, it is better to take any pills from a headache. Typically, to combat headaches used analgesics, in particular - non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). These include, for example, well known to all of us aspirin and ibuprofen.
These drugs are rarely used in a "pure form". The most popular means for a headache are combined analgesics, which contain several active components that have not only an analgesic effect, but also anti-inflammatory, antipyretic, vasodilating, and so on.
So, well-known to all Citramon refers to combined analgesics based on paracetamol, acetylsalicylic acid and caffeine. There are other combined analgesics based on paracetamol, in which other combinations are represented, for example:
paracetamol + caffeine: Migrenol, Panadol extra, Paralen extra, Strymol Plus;
paracetamol + codeine: Kodelmikst, Prohodol forte, Solpadein, Parkotset, Caffetin, No-shpalgin, Yunispaz;
paracetamol + phenobarbital or other psychotropic drugs: Quintalgin, Pentalgin-ICN, Pentalgin-Nova, Santoperalgin, Sedal-M, Sedalgin-Neo, Pentalgin Plus;
paracetamol + acetylsalicylic acid: Apap C Plus, Paracetamol-C-Hemofarm, Paracetamol Extra, FlusiO3, Efferalgan with vitamin C.
Not all these medicines are equally useful andare safe. So, all analgesics with codeine are "strong enough", so they are able to mask the symptoms of serious diseases, if any. In addition, codeine with prolonged uncontrolled admission may be addictive, which is why since recently, codeine-containing drugs are only available on prescription. And in some countries, the combination of paracetamol with barbiturates and ascorbic acid is prohibited because of possible side effects.
Also for the treatment of headaches use ibuprofen in combination with other drugs. For analgesics based on ibuprofen,For example, Nurofen plus (ibuprofen + codeine), Brustan and Ibuklin (ibuprofen + paracetamol), Novigan (ibuprofen + fenpiperinium bromide and pitofen, refers to a drug with unproven efficacy). Another analgesic from the NSAID group is metamizol sodium (better known as analgin, other trade names - Novalgin, Dipiron, Salpirin).
It is worth considering that You can not take NSAIDs too often, since most of them are acids and have an irritating effect on the gastric mucosa. The likelihood of unwanted sideeffects on the part of the gastrointestinal tract depends on the dose and frequency of the drug, the duration of treatment, as well as on a particular drug (since it is believed that ibuprofen and diclofenac in small doses comparatively rarely cause side effects).
Many of the above medicines we are used todrink, without hesitation, with every attack of a headache. However, it is important to remember that they are not as harmless as it seems at first glance, especially in combination preparations. Therefore, for the removal of a single headache, it is better to choose analgesics "easier", and constant headaches - this is an occasion to consult a doctor, and not to switch to a constant uncontrolled reception of "strong" drugs.
