Effect of Metoclopramide Versus Sumatriptan for Emergency Department Treatment of Migraine Headache

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2010-11-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine which drug makes lower migraine headache

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Isfahan University of Medical Sciences
• Treatments: Metoclopramide; Sumatriptan

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• 20-60 years old and presented with acute headache similar to previous episodes,

• with or without phonophobia,

• photophobia,

• vomiting or nausea.

Exclusion Criteria:

• fever or neck stiffness,

• altered mental state,

• pregnancy,

• recent trauma or seizure (within 24 hours),

• focal neurological abnormality on physical examination,

• allergy to metoclopramide,

• hypertension,

• cardiovascular diseases.

Also if the patients had taken a triptan or ergot during the last 24 hours were excluded from the study.