Haloperidol injection and Maxalt

• Generic Name: haloperidol
• Dosage Forms: n.a.
• Other Brand Names: Haldol, Haldol Decanoate

Haloperidol is a long-acting antipsychotic medicine that works by changing the actions of chemicals in your brain.

Haloperidol injection is used for long-term control of severe symptoms of psychosis, or mental illness such as schizophrenia. Haloperidol injection is sometimes used in people who cannot take antipsychotic medicine by mouth (orally).

Haloperidol injection is also used to control motor and speech tics in people with Tourette's syndrome.

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

• Generic Name: rizatriptan
• Dosage Forms: tablet, oral ; tablet, orally disintegrating
• Other Brand Names: Maxalt, Maxalt-MLT

Maxalt (rizatriptan) is a headache medicine that narrows the blood vessels around the brain. Rizatriptan also reduces substances in the body that can trigger headache pain, nausea, sensitivity to light and sound, and other migraine symptoms.

Maxalt is used to treat migraine headaches. Maxalt will only treat a headache that has already begun. It will not prevent headaches or reduce the number of attacks.

Maxalt should not be used to treat a common tension headache, a headache that causes loss of movement on one side of your body, or any headache that seems to be different from your usual migraine headaches. Use this medicine only if your condition has been confirmed by a doctor as migraine headaches.