Acupuncture in Infantile Colic

Lund University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Infantile Colic

Treatments: Other: Acupuncture

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00860301

1-Landgren

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether acupuncture influences:

• the rate of infants who still fulfil the colic criterion after three intervention weeks
• the time when the infants are crying, fussing or have intense bouts of colicky symptoms

Full description

Infantile colic is a common problem. Both the baby and the parents are suffering and there is a risk that the early relationship is disturbed. There is no known treatment that is both effective and harmless. Acupuncture releases different neurotransmitters and hormones, gives pain reduction and affects digestion. Acupuncture in infantile colic has not been studied in a scientific way even though the method is used in many countries. In this randomised study we will investigate if acupuncture affects symptoms in infantile colic.

Enrollment: 90 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 2 to 8 weeks old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 2-8 weeks old otherwise healthy infants who are fussing/crying more than three hours/day, more than three days during one week

Exclusion criteria

• infants born before week 36
• infants who dont gain weight properly
• infants taking other medicine than dimethicone or lactobacillus reuteri

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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90 participants in 2 patient groups

Acupuncture group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Acupuncture

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Infants come to the clinic six times, are left alone for five minutes with the acupuncture nurse who hold its hand and talks to it.