Many drugs can induce acute headache including nitroglycerin,antihypertensive agents (beta blockers calcium channel blockers,angiotensin-converting enzyme [ACE] inhibitors and methyldopa) dipyridamole,hydralazine sildenafil histamine receptor antagonists (e g. cimetidine andranitidine). NSAIDs (especially indomethacin) cyclosporine and antibiotics(especially amphotericin griseofulvin tetracycline and sulfonamides).
Drug-induced aseptic meningitis a rare occurrence has numerous possiblecauses including NSAIDs antibiotics (e g. trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole,sulfasalazine cephalosporins ciprofloxacin isoniazid and penicillin),intrathecal drugs and diagnostics (e g. antineoplastic agents such asmethotrexate and cytarabine; gentamicin; corticosteroids; spinal anesthesia;baclofen; repeated iophendylate for myelography; and radiolabeled albumin);intraventricular chemotherapy; intravenous immunoglobulin; vaccines (polio;measles mumps and rubella; and hepatitis B); and some other drugs such ascarbamazepine muromonab-CD3 and ranitidine.
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