Comparison Of Doxycycline And Common Salt For Treatment Of Umbilical Granuloma: A Randomised Control Trial

Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Umbilical Granuloma

Treatments: Drug: Doxycyclin; Other: COMMON SALT

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05545462

356/SZABMU/MS-2017

Details and patient eligibility

About

it is the study for the disease called umbilical granuloma to look for the better treatment option which can be performed by healthcare physicians and local nurses and even parents

Full description

umbilical granuloma is a condition for which multiple treatments are available those including interventional and non interventional, most of the treatments are performed by the health care physician like application of silver nitrate cryotherapy, electrocautery, double ligation.

the main goal of this study is to prefer those method or drugs which could be safely used by the nurses the health care personal and even by parents at home with fewer side effects

Enrollment: 196 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 month to 1 year old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Inclusion criteria:

  1. Neonates and infants (age<1yr)
  2. Both genders
  3. Confirmed by ultrasonography and sinography (if applicable)

Exclusion criteria

• 1. If any treatment is already given 2. Patient lost in follow up 3. Refusal

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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196 participants in 2 patient groups

COMPARISON OF DOXYCYCLINE AND COMMON SALT FOR TREATMENT OF UMBILICAL GRANULOMA IN CHILDREN

Experimental group

Description:

to study the comparison of doxycycline and common salt for the treatment of umbilical granuloma to check which is more effective safe timesaving and can be performed by even parents it showed that common salt is more effective than doxycycline

Treatment:

Drug: Doxycyclin

COMPARISON BETWEEN COMMON SALT AND SOXYCYLIN FOR TREATMENT OF UMBILICAL GRANULOMA

Experimental group

Description:

to study the comparison of doxycycline and common salt for the treatment of umbilical granuloma to check which is more effective safe timesaving and can be performed by even parents it showed that common salt is more effective than doxycycline

Treatment:

Other: COMMON SALT