The Effect of Hot Cataplasm With Caraway Oil in the Treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (CarO)

Universität Duisburg-Essen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Treatments: Drug: Olive oil; Drug: caraway oil

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01418053

11-4627 CarO

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a daily use of a Kneipp hot cataplasm with caraway oil is effective in the treatment of abdominal pain and complaints caused by Irritable bowel syndrome.

Full description

see above.

Enrollment: 48 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Irritable Bowel Syndrome according to Rom-III
• Subtype Diarrhea or Alternating
• discomfort or pain > 1 times a week
• discomfort or pain > 4 on a Visual Analog Scale

Exclusion criteria

• Inflammatory bowel diseases (test results necessary)
• Lactose, Fructose Malabsorption (test results necessary)
• Celiac Disease
• Pregnancy or Breastfeeding
• Colectomy or Hemicolectomy >50cm
• Severe metabolic disorders, hormonal disorders, cardiac or respiratory failure, liver or renal diseases
• severe depression, psychotic or psychiatric disorders, substance abuse
• cancer within the last 5 years
• allergy to caraway
• acute inflammatory diseases

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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48 participants in 3 patient groups

Hot Cataplasm with Caraway Oil

Experimental group

Treatment:

Drug: caraway oil

Hot Cataplasm with Olive oil

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Drug: Olive oil

Cold cataplasm with Olive oil

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Drug: Olive oil