Background

This Months Paper is titled – MAGraine: Magnesium compared to conventional therapy for treatment of migraines.

Everybody has a preferred cocktail for patients suffering from migraine, in my experience usually a combination of Paracetamol, high dose aspirin, IV Metoclopamide, IV fluids and high flow oxygen.

Before we talk about the paper let’s run through the evidence on ‘conventional therapy’ and some less conventional therapy..