The physician has prescribed an abortive therapy medication for a client's headache. The nurse knows which of these medications to fall into this category?
a. promethazine hydrochloride (Phenergan)
b. propanolol hydrochloride (Inderal)
c. sumatriptan (Imitrex)
d. clonidine hydrochloride (Catapres)
C
Management of migraine headaches is either abortive, to stop the headache, or prophylactic, to prevent reoccurrence or to decrease frequency of headaches. Abortive therapy for migraine headaches includes naproxen (Aleve), ibuprofen (Advil), sumatriptan (Imitrex), rizatriptan (Maxalt), zolmitriptan (Zomig), naratriptan (Amerge), almotriptan (Axert), and older drugs like cafergot, containing ergotamine and caffeine.
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