NCT01257503

Homeopathic Cold Remedy for Children Study

Randomized Controlled Trial of a Homeopathic Cold Remedy for Children

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 263 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Washington · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 2 Years – 5 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

A randomized controlled trial of a commercially available homeopathic cold remedy will be conducted. A total of 400 children, 2-5 years old, diagnosed with an upper respiratory tract infection will be randomized to receive either the homeopathic remedy or placebo. Parents of study children will administer 5 ml of the study medication up to 6 times per day as needed to treat cold symptoms. One hour after giving a dose the parent will rate change in symptoms (for up to the first 10 doses). In addition, parents will rate their child's overall symptom severity and functional status over the first 3 days of the cold. It is postulated that children receiving the active homeopathic remedy will have better symptom relief and that their symptom severity and functional status will improve more rapidly than those receiving placebo.

Conditions

• Upper Respiratory Tract Infections

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Hyland's Cold 'n Cough 4 kids	5 ml PO q4h prn cold symptoms
DRUG	placebo	liquid made to look like the active homeopathic remedy

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-12-01
• Primary completion: 2013-08-01
• Completion: 2013-12-01
• First posted: 2010-12-09
• Last updated: 2015-01-14
• Results posted: 2015-01-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States