Raynaud's disease
Key points about treatments
There is only one medicine that definitely helps the symptoms of Raynaud's and it can cause side effects. If your symptoms are mild you won't need any treatment.
- Keeping warm is the best way to prevent attacks. See our advice on Keeping warm.
- A medicine called nifedipine can help prevent Raynaud's attacks. But it can cause side effects.
- Your doctor may try other medicines but there's not enough research to say whether they work or not.
This information was last updated on Jan 09, 2009
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