Posts tagged with: headaches
Clopidogrel
Clopidogrel is an anti platelet drug that is used to prevent blood clots from forming. It is prescribed to patients who have a tendency to form blood clots in the fast flowing arteries and heart or possibly those who have recently had a heart attack or stroke. This drug... [Read more]
Doxazosin
Doxazosin is classed as a antihypertensive vasodilator drug that relieves hypertension (high blood pressure)it does its job by relaxing the blood vessels, the knock on effect allows blood and oxygen to circulate more easily around the body, lowering blood pressure and reducing... [Read more]
Antihypertensive Drugs
Your blood pressure is ascertained by a machine that takes two reading The first measurement is called the systolic pressure and is measured while the heart’s ventricles are contracting, this reading is normally higher than the second one which is known as the diastolic... [Read more]
Pizotifen
An antihistamine drug with a similar structure and anticholingeric effects as that of the tricyclic antidepressants Pizotifen is given for prevention of vascular headache including classical migraine, common migraine, and cluster headache attacks in individuals who suffer... [Read more]
Quinine
Quinine is a natural white crystalline alkaloid having antipyretic (fever-reducing), antimalarial, analgesic (painkilling), and anti-inflammatory properties and a bitter taste. It is used to treat malaria. Although it is has been around for some time and is known to cause... [Read more]
How Glaucoma Medication Works
Glaucoma is a build up of fluid pressure in the eye. This pressure builds up to such an abnormal level that treatment must be given to the patient, either surgically or by drug treatment to reduce pressure. If untreated the pressure compresses the blood vessels that supply... [Read more]
The Brain and Nervous System Information
The human brain contains over 100 billion nerves cells, known as neurons. Their job is the receiving of electro-chemical impulses, and their function would be to send responsive signals back to the various glands and muscles. An example of the way our brain works would be... [Read more]
Low Pressure and Migraine
Scientists have found a link between the weather and headaches. For some time a connection between the weather and headaches has long been suspected, now scientists have found from the study of some 7,054 individuals that as far as old wives tales go this one has solid foundation. The... [Read more]
