Question

A 25-year-old female presents with throbbing right-sided headaches associated with nausea, photophobia, and phonophobia. Attacks last 6-12 hours and occur twice a month. According to NICE, which triptan is recommended first-line (in combination with a simple analgesic) for acute migraine?

Accepted Answer

Oral sumatriptan

Answer

Oral almotriptan

Answer

Subcutaneous sumatriptan

Answer

Nasal zolmitriptan

Answer

Ergotamine tartrate

Practice question

A 25-year-old female presents with throbbing right-sided headaches associated with nausea, photophobia, and phonophobia. Attacks last 6-12 hours and occur twice a month. According to NICE, which triptan is recommended first-line (in combination with a simple analgesic) for acute migraine?