Manage Your Headaches Fast With Excedrin's Powerful Ingredients

There aren't many things that can derail your plans for the day like a nasty headache. On top of the pain and sensory sensitivity that we typically associate with headaches, they're often accompanied by other symptoms like physical and mental fatigue, waves of nausea and dizziness. Even simple tasks can feel like chores when a headache strikes; we know you want effective relief, and you want it as quickly as possible.

If you're looking for a fast headache solution that can get you back on your feet and doing what's most important to you, Excedrin Extra Strength Caplets might be just what you need to overcome your headache symptoms.

Excedrin Extra Strength Caplets: Fight Back Against Your Headaches

We know that when you're juggling a busy work schedule, family life and social calendar, you don't have time to sit and wait for a headache to clear up on its own—especially in the case of migraine headaches, which can sideline anyone until they clear up. That's where the triple-action relief of Excedrin Extra Strength Caplets can help. For some, the powerful formula of Excedrin Extra Strength can start providing relief in as little as 15 minutes.

Excedrin Extra Strength is there to help you focus on your well-being and manage headache pain quickly. Here's what you need to know about how our triple-action formula starts providing headache relief—and providing it fast.

Three Ingredients to Provide Headache and Migraine Relief

Want to learn about the science of Excedrin Extra Strength's triple-action formula? These caplets fight back against headaches with three powerful ingredients, starting to relieve pain for some users in as little as 15 minutes. Here's what you can find in these caplets:

• Acetaminophen (250 mg): Reliable pain relief. Acetaminophen is used in a number of leading pain relief medications, and works by raising the body's pain threshold and cooling its temperature, helping to relieve aches and pains. By making your body less sensitive to pain, acetaminophen starts providing pain relief quickly and effectively.¹
• Aspirin (250 mg): Inflammation reduction. Aspirin has been used for over 100 years to reduce pain. It works by blocking your body's production of chemicals called prostaglandins. Headaches, especially migraines, trigger production of these chemicals and cause blood vessel inflammation and swelling. By blocking the production of these prostaglandins, aspirin reduces the transmission of pain signals to the brain and provides pain relief.²
• Caffeine (65 mg): Booster for the other pain relievers. When you get a headache, it's often because your blood vessels swell or tighten, causing increased blood flow around your brain. In turn, this blood flow increases pressure around the brain's nerves, and that triggers pain responses and headaches. Caffeine causes blood vessels to narrow and restrict blood flow, reducing pressure and pain responses. It also increases absorption of Excedrin Extra Strength's aspirin and acetaminophen, making them more effective at providing pain relief. The amount of caffeine in an Excedrin Extra Strength dosage is about half the amount you would find in a cup of coffee (65 mg vs. 134 mg).³

This triple-action headache relief is something that gives Excedrin Extra Strength a leg up over its leading competitors.

A Formula You Won’t Find in Tylenol Extra Strength

A number of leading headache relief medications use acetaminophen to provide pain relief. This includes Tylenol Extra Strength—but acetaminophen is the only pain relief ingredient Tylenol Extra Strength uses.⁴ Excedrin Extra Strength delivers its powerful, triple-action formula of acetaminophen, aspirin and caffeine; a combination that helps to further block pain and boost the ingredients' effects. When you need powerful headache pain relief and you need it fast, Excedrin Extra Strength Caplets may be just what you've been looking for.