Migraine is a serious health condition from which thousands of people all over the world suffer. Migraines are painful recurring headaches, accompanied by other symptoms such as nausea, aura and visual disturbances. Migraine headache medicine can be prescribed to patients to heal or prevent the symptoms; depending on the severity of the problem they can be either migraine abortive medication or analgesics.

Migraine abortive medicines, also known as triptans, are used to manage moderate headaches; they do not relieve the pain itself as the analgesics but they counteract the causes of headache, mostly the dilation of arteries. This medication doesn’t come without side effects though.

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