NCT01179412

Treatment of Epidemic Keratoconjunctivitis With 2% Povidone-iodine

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 172 (actual)
• Sponsor: Mahidol University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 7 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine the outcomes of treating epidemic keratoconjunctivitis with 2% povidone-iodine.

Detailed description

The study design was a prospective interventional case series. Our institutional ethical committee approved the study protocol in April 2004. We performed this study between July 2004 and December 2009. During this period, there were 2 episodes of EKC epidemic. The first episode was in 2006 and the second in 2009.

Conditions

• Viral Conjunctivitis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	2% povidone-iodine	apply 4 times a day for one week
DRUG	2% povidone-iodine	apply 2% povidone-iodine 4 times per day for one week

Timeline

• Start date: 2004-07-01
• Primary completion: 2009-12-01
• Completion: 2009-12-01
• First posted: 2010-08-11
• Last updated: 2010-08-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Thailand