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Acupuncture in Infantile Colic

NCT00860301 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 90

Last updated 2009-03-12

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether acupuncture influences:

* the rate of infants who still fulfil the colic criterion after three intervention weeks
* the time when the infants are crying, fussing or have intense bouts of colicky symptoms

Conditions

  • Infantile Colic

Interventions

OTHER

Acupuncture

Infants come to the clinic twice a week for three weeks. Parents meet a nurse and hand the infant to her. The nurse brings the infant to a room where another nurse is alone with the infant for five minutes. Infants in the acupuncture group get acupuncture. One needle is inserted 1-3 mm in the point LI4 on one of the infants hands for one to three seconds and then withdrawn.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ekhagastiftelsen

    collaborator OTHER

  • Magn Bergvalls stiftelse

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • General Maternity Hospital Foundation

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Lund University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Inger Hallström, Professor · Lund University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
2 Weeks
Max Age
8 Weeks
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-12-31
Primary Completion
2008-03-31
Completion
2008-03-31

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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