When should you take antispasmodics from a headache?

1 When medications are needed

Often the cause of the headache is spasm of cerebral vessels. In this case, between the walls of the vessels narrowed the lumen, which is why the brain nutrition is disturbed. Spasm can occur due to diseases such as migraine, osteochondrosis, blood pressure jumps, stressful situations, overwork or lack of sleep. Symptoms of this disease except headache is dizziness, nausea, in severe cases, speech impairment or loss of orientation in space.

Headache in this case is moderate or severe. She can give to the back of the head, forehead or whiskey. In this case, relieve the headache will help antispasmodics. Taking drugs of this group with a headache, you need to remember that antispasmodics do not treat the root cause of pain, but only relieve unpleasant symptoms.

Spasmolytic drugs are medications that cause a decrease in tone or eliminate a spasm of smooth muscles. Such an effect is possessed by drugs that affect different parts of the regulation of the tone of smooth muscles.

There are two types of antispasmodics:

• Neurotropic - which affect the nervous system. In turn, their actions are divided into preparations of central and peripheral action.
• Myotropic drugs - affect the muscles.

But some medicines can be simultaneously attributed to both groups.

To relatively safe drugs, a group of myotropic antispasmodics that effectively eliminate the headache include: no-spa, papaverine, dibasol, drotaverin. Their action is based on the relief of spasm of smooth muscles, due to this there is a relaxing effect.

Cinnarizine( stugeron).The drug, which affects the blood circulation and has an antispasmodic effect on the blood vessels, while practically not affecting the heart rate and pressure. The drug is prescribed for headache, dizziness, noise in the ears.

Midokalm or sirdalud. Effective relieve tension headache. This drug is a central muscle relaxant.

2 Combined drugs

Very popular is the use of drugs, which combine an antispasmodic with another substance that has an anti-inflammatory analgesic effect. The most popular of them:

• Spazmalgon and its analogues baralgetas, spazgan, revalgin. They include metamizole sodium, which is better known as analgin, which has an analgesic effect. The second component of the pituopenone is the hydrochloride, which removes the tone and relaxes the smooth muscles. The third is fenpiverinia bromide, which removes the spasm of smooth muscles. The combination of these drugs mutually complements and intensifies each other's actions.
• Combi. In its composition, there is paracetamol, which has an analgesic and antipyretic effect, as well as dicyclomine hydrochloride. It in turn relaxes muscles, and eliminates spasm of smooth muscles.
• Novigan. It contains a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug ibuprofen and fospirolitiki fenpiverinia bromide pituophenone hydrochloride. It has antispasmodic, anti-inflammatory and analgesic effect. Effective in various types of pain, including headache.

Quite often antispasmodics are used to stop migraine attacks. But recent studies have shown that with this disease there is not a spasm of the vessels, but an expansion, so the effectiveness of these drugs during an attack is moderate, and in some cases, the headache may even increase. If preference is given to antispasmodics, then it is necessary to use combination drugs.

3 Contraindications

• Contraindicated spasmolytics in severe liver or kidney failure, with heart failure, glaucoma and hypersensitivity to components.
• Do not use drugs for a long period, they only relieve the pain, but they do not provide a sufficiently effective treatment of the cause of the disease.
• Drugs containing dicyclomine, fenpiperinium bromide, and pituophenone hydrochloride are contraindicated in pregnant and lactating women. In case the pregnant woman suffers headaches, the doctor can recommend no-shpu. The uncontrolled intake of antispasmodics with headache can translate it into a chronic form.

In order to identify the causes of the headache and eliminate them, you must always contact the doctor.