Treatment of Pediatric Patients That Lost Sense of Smell Due to COVID-19

NCT04964414 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: PHASE1/PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 20

Last updated 2024-06-13

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Summary

This research study is a randomized controlled trial in pediatric and young adult patients who have lost their sense of smell due to COVID-19 viral infection. The goals are:

1. to learn more about the effects of smell retraining therapy on smell loss following COVID-19 and
2. to determine if budesonide-saline irrigations make smell retraining therapy more effective.

Conditions

  • Dysosmia
  • Anosmia
  • Covid19

Interventions

OTHER

Smell Retraining

Smell practice with household scented items

DRUG

Budesonide

Nasal irrigation with liquid steroid

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Amanda Stapleton

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Amanda L Stapleton, MD · University of Pittsburgh

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Years
Max Age
21 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-09-30
Primary Completion
2023-01-13
Completion
2023-03-29
FDA Drug
Yes

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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