The Treatment of Moderate to Severe Allergic Rhinitis With Electroacupuncture Combined With Microneedle Knife

Pengfei Qiu

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Microneedle Knife; Electroacupuncture; Allergic Rhinitis (Disorder)

Treatments: Drug: Cetirizine hydrochloride tablets combined with nasal budesonide spray.; Other: Electroacupuncture combined with Microneedle Knife

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06890260

2025ZR001

Details and patient eligibility

About

Based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria, patients with allergic rhinitis who meet the requirements are selected as trial subjects, and the efficacy is clarified in a randomized controlled design trial. We will Use the total nasal symptom score as the primary outcome index, serum chemokine, intercellular adhesion molecule-1, eosinophil cationic protein, total non-nasal symptom score, and rhinitis-related quality of life scale as secondary outcome indexes, and oral cetirizine hydrochloride tablets and nasal budesonide spray as the control group, the efficacy of the subjects in the electroacupuncture combined with microneedle knife group and the drug group will be observed respectively before treatment, after 2 weeks of treatment, after 4 weeks, 1 month follow-up after the end of treatment, and 3 months follow-up after the end of treatment. 4 weeks later, 1 month follow-up after the end of treatment and 3 months follow-up after the end of treatment.

Enrollment: 90 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Those with clinical and laboratory diagnosis of moderate to severe allergic rhinitis;
2. Aged ≥18 years and ≤75 years, with no restriction on gender or ethnicity;
3. Not taking drugs such as antihistamines or nasal steroids within 1 month before enrollment;
4. Those who voluntarily participated in this study and signed an informed consent form, and who were able to adhere to outpatient treatment for 4 weeks.

Exclusion criteria

1. Atrophic rhinitis, hypertrophic rhinitis, vasomotor rhinitis, acute and chronic sinusitis, nasal polyps, severe septal deviation, eosinophilia non-allergic rhinitis;
2. Those with other allergic diseases such as asthma, urticaria, and colds that cause nasal congestion, runny nose, and sneezing;
3. Those who have serious diseases such as cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, hepatic, renal and hematopoietic systems in combination;
4. Pregnant or lactating women, psychiatric patients, patients with malignant tumors.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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90 participants in 2 patient groups

Cetirizine hydrochloride tablets combined with nasal budesonide spray group

Experimental group

Description:

The control group will be given oral cetirizine hydrochloride tablets and nasal budesonide spray with the following dosage: the starting dose is 2 sprays in each nostril twice daily, which is reduced to 1 spray in each nostril twice daily after 3 days, and then change to 1 spray once daily after 1 week, which will be used as the maintenance dose for a total of 4 weeks of treatment.

Treatment:

Drug: Cetirizine hydrochloride tablets combined with nasal budesonide spray.

Electroacupuncture combined with Microneedle knife group

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects in this group will be treated with Electroacupuncture combined with Microneedle knife.The treatment time is 30 minutes each time, once every other day, and the treatment is carried out 3 times a week for 4 consecutive weeks, for a total of 12 treatments.

Treatment:

Other: Electroacupuncture combined with Microneedle Knife