When prescribing any headache therapy, appropriate use of ...

[Shelles]

When prescribing any headache therapy, appropriate use of medications needs to be discussed to prevent medication-overuse headaches. A clinical characteristic of medication-overuse headaches is that they:
 
  1. Are increasing in frequency
  2. Are increasing in intensity
  3. Recur when medication wears off
  4. Begin to cluster into a pattern

Question 2

Preventative therapy for cluster headaches includes:
 
  1. Massage or relaxation therapy
  2. Ergotamine nightly before bed
  3. Intranasal lidocaine four times a day during clusters of headaches
  4. Propranolol (Inderal) daily

[wuly]

Answer to Question 1

3

Answer to Question 2

2

[Shelles]

Excellent

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