Clinical Value of Homeopathic Prophylaxis of Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections in Persons With Spinal Cord Injury

Swiss Paraplegic Research, Nottwil

Status: Completed

Conditions: Spinal Cord Injury; Symptomatic Urinary Tract Infection

Treatments: Other: standard treatment without homeopathy; Other: individual homeopathic treatment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: NETWORK

Identifiers

NCT01477502

11050 (Registry Identifier)

2011-24

Details and patient eligibility

About

recurrent symptomatic urinary tracts infections (UTI) in persons with spinal cord injury are a frequent problem, leading to significant morbidity and to a decreased quality of life.

• until today, there is no effective prophylaxis for UTI for patients with spinal cord injury.
• homeopathy has been shown to be an effective treatment option in several chronic diseases
• study hypothesis: the addition of homeopathic assessment and treatment to a standard prevention strategy for recurrent UTI will significantly reduce the number of symptomatic UTI per year in this group of patients compared to standard prevention alone

Enrollment: 46 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• neurogenic bladder dysfunction treated by intermittent catheterization
• recurrent (>3/year) symptomatic urinary tract infections

Exclusion criteria

• inability to speak German
• already under homeopathic treatment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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46 participants in 2 patient groups

individual homeopathic treatment

Active Comparator group

Description:

participants receive homeopathic treatment in addition to standard prevention measures for UTI

Treatment:

Other: individual homeopathic treatment

standard prophylaxis

Other group

Treatment:

Other: standard treatment without homeopathy