Dologesic and Ergotamine Tartrate

• Generic Name: acetaminophen / phenyltoloxamine
• Dosage Forms: n.a.
• Other Brand Names: Dologesic, Dologesic DF, Aceta-Gesic, Percogesic, Major-gesic, Phenylgesic, Apagesic, Duogesic, Phenagesic, Genasec, Q-Gesic, Uni-Perr, Vitoxapap, Flextra-DS, Dolorex, RhinoFlex, Relagesic, Staflex, Alpain, Flextra-650, Acuflex, Hyflex-650, Hyflex-DS, Lagesic, RhinoFlex 650, Q Flex, Vistra, BeFlex, BP Poly-650, Zgesic, Ali-Flex, Dologen, Flextra DS

Acetaminophen is a pain reliever and a fever reducer.

Phenyltoloxamine is an antihistamine that reduces the effects of natural chemical histamine in the body. Histamine can produce symptoms of sneezing, itching, watery eyes, and runny nose.

Dologesic is a combination medicine used to treat fever, headache, menstrual pain, and other minor aches and pains. Dologesic also treats itchy or watery eyes, and pain or fever caused by the common cold or seasonal allergies.

Dologesic may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide.

• Generic Name: ergotamine
• Dosage Forms: n.a.
• Other Brand Names: Ergomar

Prevention or abortion of vascular headaches (e.g., migraine, cluster headaches), when used alone or in fixed combination with caffeine. Should not be used for chronic daily management of vascular headaches.

Generally not preferred for terminating acute cluster headaches; onset of action is slower than that of other therapies (e.g., sumatriptan, oxygen).

Has been used for short-term (e.g., up to 3 weeks) prophylaxis of episodic cluster headaches to suppress a series of attacks and reduce duration of cluster period. Prophylactic administration at bedtime may be particularly useful in selected patients with nocturnal cluster attacks.

Ineffective in the treatment of muscle contraction headaches.