Butalbital WisdomCard™
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Research Notes on Butalbital
Butalbital is a barbiturate seldom taken alone. Most often it is combined with acetaminophen and caffeine, then sold under the name Fioricet. It is effective in migraine and cluster headaches. Beware of spam sites that promise information, only to lure you to questionable sites to get to you buy it online.
Fast Facts:
- Butalbital is a Schedule III drug
- Do not store this medicine in the bathroom due to moisture.
- Frequently used in treating migraine headaches
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Latest Headlines on Butalbital
What is Butalbital?
- Medscape (From WebMD): Butalbital Compound Oral
- Wikipedia: Fiorinal | Fioricet
- Drugs.Com: Butalbital with Aspirin (Systemic) Description
- Revolution Health: Butalbital
What Are The Uses for Butalbital?
- WikiAnswers: Uses Of Butalbital
- UpToDate for Patients: Migraines, Mild Analgesics and Others
- Medline Plus: Headache Treatment
What Are The Side Effects, Interactions and Precautions for Butalbital?
- RxList: Side Effects and Drug Interactions
- Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders: Side Effects
- Drug Lib.Com: Warnings and Precautions
- Healthline: What Are The Possible Side Effects Of Acetaminophen And Butalbital?
- WebMD: Side Effects
What are the Alternatives to Butalbital?
- American Headache Society: Commonly Used Acute Migraine Treatments
- Yahoo Health: Migraines and Medications
- Health World: Treating Migraine Without Drugs
What are the Holistic Alternatives to Butalbital?
- Acupuncture.Com: What is Headache?
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: Feverfew for Migraines
- WholeHealthMD.Com: Helpful Supplements for Migraines
- Gold Bamboo: Migraine Information
Wisdom, Blogs and Message Boards about Butalbital
- Medicine: Treat The Chronic Headache in Minutes with Butalbital
- The Daily Headache: Treating Migraines with Codeine, Oxycodone or Barbiturate Increases Risk of Chronic Migraine
- Healthtalk: Top 10 Unexpected Migraine Treatments
- Magnum: Drug Profiles: Fiorinal
Clinical Trials for Butalbital
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Butalbital Clinical Trials
- CenterWatch: Butalbital Clinical Trials
Abuse of Butalbital
- Archives of Neurology: Barbiturate Withdrawal Following Internet Purchase of Fioricet (July, 2004)
Scientific and Medical Journal Articles on Butalbital
- PubMed: Butalbital Articles
- JAMA: Butalbital Articles
- Google Scholar: Butalbital Articles
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- Contributor: Stephen Taylor
- Reviewer: Tara Salamone
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Last update: Oct. 14, 2009
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- Contributor: Stephen Taylor
- Reviewer: Tara Salamone
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Redirects: Barbiturate, Acetaminophens with Codeine, Barbiturate addiction, Butalbital abuse, Pain Relieve, Butalbitol, Butalbitol for Migraines, Butalbitol side effects, Brutalbital, Brtualbital headaches
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Each WisdomCard is handcrafted by our team of physician-guided health advocates. Our goal is to make it easy for you to find the most useful health resources for any health topic by filtering out spam and bad links.