Health Condition 1: B86- Scabies
Conditions
Interventions
Intervention1: Individualized homeopathic medicines plus concomitant care: Intervention is planned as administering the indicated homeopathic medicines in centesimal potencies (CH). Each dose will con
dosage and repetition depending upon the individual requirement of the cases. Patients will be advised to refrain from handling the globules or from eating, drinking, smoking or brushing teeth within
Sponsors
D N De Homoeopathic Medical College Hospital
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Confirmed cases of scabies (ICD-10 code B86): Clinical findings typical of scabies (burrows, erythematous papules, itching at night time, mite tunnels, macular or papular rashes with severe itching as main symptoms in web spaces, groin, other body parts, mite burrow in the webbed spaces of finger, flexor surface of wrist, elbows, axillae, belt line, feet, scrotum (male child), areolae (female child), nodular scabies, etc.) 2. Dermatoscopic detection of mite, eggs, and soils 3. Children between 5 and 18 years of age 4. Participants and/or guardians providing with written informed assent and/or consent voluntarily 5. Illiterate people will be interviewed by the investigators maintaining adequate privacy to fill up the scales or questionnaires
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Severely immune compromised and with fatal systemic symptoms. 2. Participant with history of hypersensitivity reaction on any topical application. 3. Participant with other chronic disorders like juvenile diabetes, nephrotic syndrome, tuberculosis etc. 4. Scabies associated with any other disease. 5. Secondary bacterial infection of scabies. 6. Norwegian scabies. 7. Skin conditions that could make it difficult to evaluate the extent of an infestation or would present a problem in the evaluation of response to therapy (e.g., atopic dermatitis, eczema, contact dermatitis, lichen planus, papular urticaria, seborrheic dermatitis) 8. Substance abuse and/or dependence. 9. Already undergoing homoeopathic treatment for scabies or any other chronic diseases within last 2 months. 10. Simultaneous participation in any other clinical trials
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The number of children revealing clinical cure. â??Clinical cureâ?? is defined as the improvement of lesions of scabies with no new lesions occurring since initiation of the treatment.Timepoint: 2 months | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| CDLQI questionnaireTimepoint: Baseline, every month, up to 2 months;DLQI questionnaireTimepoint: Baseline, every month, up to 2 months;Skindex-29 questionnaireTimepoint: Baseline, every month, up to 2 months | — |
Countries
India
Contacts
Public ContactMd Sakhawat Hossain
D N De Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital
Outcome results
None listed