Oxygen May Treat Headaches
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Patients who suffer excruciating pain near the eyes or temples known as cluster headaches may feel better with 15 minutes of breathing high-flow oxygen, according to a study in JAMA.
A news release said that cluster headaches usually last for 15 minutes to three hours and can come as often as eight times a day. They usually come in "clusters" that last a few weeks or months, then can go into remission for years.
Patients can get relief from drug injections, but the treatment has side effects.
The study of breathing oxygen included 109 people. They were sometimes given oxygen through a mask and sometimes just air.
The researchers found that 78 percent of the patients who received oxygen reported being pain-free or to have adequate relief within 15 minutes of treatment, compared to 20 percent of patients who received air.
"To our knowledge, this is the first adequately powered trial of high-flow oxygen compared with placebo, and it confirms clinical experience and current guidelines that inhaled oxygen can be used as an acute attack therapy for episodic and chronic cluster headache," the authors wrote.
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A news release said that cluster headaches usually last for 15 minutes to three hours and can come as often as eight times a day. They usually come in "clusters" that last a few weeks or months, then can go into remission for years.
Patients can get relief from drug injections, but the treatment has side effects.
The study of breathing oxygen included 109 people. They were sometimes given oxygen through a mask and sometimes just air.
The researchers found that 78 percent of the patients who received oxygen reported being pain-free or to have adequate relief within 15 minutes of treatment, compared to 20 percent of patients who received air.
"To our knowledge, this is the first adequately powered trial of high-flow oxygen compared with placebo, and it confirms clinical experience and current guidelines that inhaled oxygen can be used as an acute attack therapy for episodic and chronic cluster headache," the authors wrote.
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