Clinicians should pay attention to medication-overuse headache / 中国实用内科杂志

ABSTRACT

Medication-overuse headache(MOH) is one of the subtypes of secondary headache.It usually occurs on patients previously experiencing migraine or tension-type headache with symptomatic drugs overused frequently.Drugs for headaches can cause MOH.Compound analgesics containing caffeine may be the most common drugs in China.Proper instructions,careful education,compliance-enhancing and reasonable use of medication for preventing primary headache are necessary to withdraw the overused medication and thus to relive headaches and avoid relapse.