Infusion care treats various health conditions. It has proven to be effective in relieving migraine pain.
What are migraine headaches?
A migraine headache is an incapacitating severe throbbing pain in your head. It may also involve nausea, vomiting, and sensitivity to light and noise. They can persist for hours or days. Some may be severe or persistent enough to keep you from performing your daily activities or job duties.
Typically, a migraine sufferer, before the onset of the pain, will experience a so-called aura. The aura might continue after the pain starts. An aura can include sensitivity to light, noise, and smells. Visual disturbances include flashes of light, blind spots, or black dots. Auditory sensitivity includes unbearable voices, music, and any other sounds. The touch sense is disturbed by tingling, heat (usually on one side of the face), and other skin responses. Some people have their taste sense disturbed.
These aura effects typically lead to physical responses such as nausea, vomiting, and a feeling of weakness, exhaustion, and drowsiness. Psychological or emotional responses include irritability, stress, and depression.
The causes of migraine headaches are still a mystery. We don’t know as much as we should about them. In that knowledge vacuum, the treatment of migraines is a trial-and-error proposition.
What is infusion therapy?
Infusion therapy consists of intravenous (IV) injections of drugs that are tailored to the patient’s particular health condition. The drugs are injected directly into the bloodstream.
Infusion drugs tailored to migraine treatment include FDA-approved VYEPTI. Clinical trials showed a positive effect for 75% of the patients treated. It prevented the patient from returning for more than a month. The usual regimen calls for four infusions per year.
AIS Healthcare Services
In 2008, AIS Healthcare was organized in Dallas, Texas. It now serves more than 35,000 patients in eight locations in six states.
It provides infusion services in six locations. It also maintains compounding pharmacies in two locations. They are 503A pharmacies accredited by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Those pharmacies administer AIS’s Targeted Drug Delivery service. They fill highly specialized and custom-made infusion drug prescriptions for AIS’s infusion centers as well as other qualified healthcare providers.