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ORLANDO, FLA. -- Red-tinted contact lenses provided rapid, safe, nonpharmacologic relief to most patients with acute migraine pain in a recent study.
The red lenses filter specific wavelengths of light that may overstimulate retinal receptors in some migraine sufferers, resulting in the characteristic headache pain that is exacerbated by light exposure, Richard L. Garrison, M.D., reported in a poster presentation at the annual meeting of the North American Primary Care Research Group.
Dr. Garrison and colleague Kathleen Saathoff of San Jacinto Methodist Hospital in Baytown, Texas, presented the results of a case series of 33 patients with a history of photophobic headache who were offered bilateral insertion of special-order red-tinted contact lenses during acute pain attacks. The light-filtering lenses brought immediate pain relief to 31 of...
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