Efficacy of Buteyko Breathing in Seniors With Chronic Eustachian Tube Dysfunction

Cairo University (CU)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Eustachian Tube Dysfunction

Treatments: Other: usual care; Other: Buteyko breathing

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07193485

IRB00014233-36

Details and patient eligibility

About

Eustachian tube dysfunction is distressing probelm. drugs usually are not effective. compelemtary tehrapies like Buteyko breathing may be effective

Full description

forty seniors with Eustachian tube dysfunction (chronic obstructive form) will be ranomized to group I or group II. the group enroled 20 seniors. both groups wil take usual care (budesonide spray in nose in 64 microgram concentration one time per day plus the intake of a tablet two times daily containing containing 20-mg contration of pseudoephedrine hydrochloride and 5-mg concentration of loratadine) for 2 weeks. group I will aslo receive 30-min Buteyko breathing two times daily for 14 weeks.

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Eustachian Tube Dysfunction (chronic obstructive form)
• unilateral ear affetion
• senior patients
• chronci affection more than 3 months

Exclusion criteria

• obesity
• cardiac probelms repsiratory problems

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

group number 1

Experimental group

Description:

twenty seniors with Eustachian tube dysfunction (chronic obstructive form) will bein group I and this group will take usual care (budesonide spray in nose in 64 microgram concentration one time per day plus the intake of a tablet two times daily containing containing 20-mg contration of pseudoephedrine hydrochloride and 5-mg concentration of loratadine) for 2 weeks. Also, group I will aslo receive 30-min Buteyko breathing two times daily for 14 weeks.

Treatment:

Other: Buteyko breathing

group number 2

Active Comparator group

Description:

Twenty seniors with Eustachian tube dysfunction (chronic obstructive form) will be ranomized to group II oand this group will take usual care (budesonide spray in nose in 64 microgram concentration one time per day plus the intake of a tablet two times daily containing containing 20-mg contration of pseudoephedrine hydrochloride and 5-mg concentration of loratadine) for 2 weeks.

Treatment:

Other: usual care