NCT00528554

Laser Acupuncture Against Nausea in Children

Laser Acupuncture to Alleviate Nausea and Vomiting in Children and Adolescents Receiving Highly Emetogenic Chemotherapy. A Prospective, Double-Blinded, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 25 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University Children Hospital Homburg · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To investigate whether nonthermal low level laser acupuncture has beneficial effects on nausea and vomiting in children receiving highly emetogenic chemotherapy for a malignant solid tumor. In a previous crossover study comparing needle acupuncture to no intervention in an otherwise similar setting we found beneficial effects, but this trial was not even single-blinded and therefore the results are questionable. The hypothesis is that active laser acupuncture is more effective than placebo laser acupuncture concerning episodes of retching/vomiting (primary outcome measure) and rescue antiemetic medication (secondary outcome measure) with a fix standard antiemetic medication

Conditions

• Nausea
• Vomiting
• Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	laser acupuncture	laser acupuncture according to traditional chinese medicine criteria, energy dosage 1J/point, average of 8 points to be treated, once daily during chemotherapy course
PROCEDURE	placebo laser acupuncture	laser acupuncture according to traditional chinese medicine criteria, average of 8 points to be treated, once daily during chemotherapy course

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-09-01
• Completion: 2009-09-01
• First posted: 2007-09-12
• Last updated: 2007-09-18

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Germany