NCT00552981

Effectiveness of Local Application of Warm Air in Patients With Common Cold (HELI Study)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 157 (actual)
• Sponsor: Charite University, Berlin, Germany · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

In a randomized controlled trial, the investigators include patients with beginning symptoms of a common cold and compare two interventions: 1. the inhalation of warm air for inducing a warming of the throat and 2. the inhalation of ambient air as control. As outcome the effect on symptoms and duration of the common cold will be assessed. The interventions will consist of visits with a duration of 2-3 minutes on three following days in a Finnish sauna. Patients will be fully dressed.

Conditions

• Common Cold

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	inhalation of warm air in a Finnish sauna	three times on three following days, each 2-3 minutes
PROCEDURE	inhalation of ambient air in a Finnish sauna	three times on three following days, each 2-3 minutes

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-11-01
• Primary completion: 2009-04-01
• Completion: 2009-04-01
• First posted: 2007-11-02
• Last updated: 2012-07-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany