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Effect of Turmeric on Pruritus in Hemodialysis Patients

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Shiraz University of Medical Sciences

Status and phase

Completed
Early Phase 1

Conditions

End Stage Renal Failure

Treatments

Drug: turmeric
Drug: placebo

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to see whether turmeric can be effective in treatment of pruritus in hemodialysis patients.

Full description

pruritus is a common in hemodialysis patients and many treatment recommended for it . as turmeric has anti-inflammatory , anti-cytokine and anti-oxidant effect it may effective in treatment of uremic pruritus. thus we compared turmeric with placebo in this study

Enrollment

60 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 70 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Hemodialysis for more than 3 months
  • More than 18 years old
  • Pruritus

Exclusion criteria

  • Use other treatment for pruritus

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Double Blind

60 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

turmeric
Experimental group
Description:
turmeric 500 mg tid orally for 8 weeks
Treatment:
Drug: turmeric
Drug: turmeric
plasebo
Placebo Comparator group
Description:
placebo tid orally for 8 weeks
Treatment:
Drug: placebo

Trial contacts and locations

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