More than 1 million Dutch people suffer from a severe form of migraine. For them, the solution is now at hand, researchers believe.
writes the AD. The new product is the first drug that tackles the mote CGRP that causes the headache. Patients who have severe migraines each month receive an injection which CGRP is turned off. The drug works against cluster headaches, a disease which, according to neurologist Michel Ferrari of Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) have ‘virtually no remedy “for doing so.
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In migraine patients, good results are achieved with the new drug. American researchers who has been smaller studies done to saw in half the number of attacks by half of the subjects. One in five was due to the medication at all off of his complaints. The LUMC will now give the medication to 600 people, AD writes.
However, there are already drugs that help prevent migraines, but they are ‘flukes’. The drugs are used for example for high blood pressure, heart problems and epilepsy and as a side effect that they help for migraines, though no one knows why.
Another great benefit of the new drug is that there are hardly any side effects appear to are. The antiepileptic drugs now being given, patients may for example be depressed.
Multiple attacks per month
who has a severe form of migraine, get at least two attacks per month. Because of these attacks, many patients have days severe symptoms such as pounding headaches, nausea and sensitivity to light and sound.
According to the AD, the agent, if it is indeed found to work as well as now seems within 3 to 4 years on the market.
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