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A STUDY ON EFFICACY, SAFETY AND TOLERABILITY OF TOPICAL PERMETHRIN VS TOPICAL SPINOSAD IN MANAGEMENT OF SCABIES

A PROSPECTIVE, RANDOMIZED, OPEN LABEL STUDY ON EFFICACY, SAFETY AND TOLERABILITY OF TOPICAL PERMETHRIN 5 PERCENTAGE VS TOPICAL SPINOSAD 0.9 PERCENTAGE IN MANAGEMENT OF SCABIES - Nil

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Phase 4
Study type
Interventional
Source
CTRI
Registry ID
CTRI/2025/11/097926
Enrollment
96
Registered
2025-11-24
Start date
Unknown
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2026-06-01

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Conditions

Health Condition 1: B86- Scabies

Interventions

Intervention1: Topical permethrin 5%: Topical permethrin 5% applied weekly for two weeks Control Intervention1: Topical Spinosad 0.9%: Topical spinosad 0.9% weekly for one week

Sponsors

Dr.Noorain Hamid Khan
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Patients who are clinically diagnosed case of scabies. Household contacts of the patients. Age include Above 4 years and less than 65 years. Both sexes. Complaint of nocturnal pruritus and papules or excoriation marks over the body. Patient having typical burrows over the web spaces and involvement of flexures of upper limb, axilla, breast, and groins.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Age less than 4 years, pregnancy, those females planning for pregnancy in next one month and lactation. Atypical variant and scabies with secondary infection. H/O recent live vaccination, other scabicide drugs taken in recent past. Patients with anemia, liver diseases, kidney disease. Patients with malignancies or lymphoproliferative disorders. Patients on potent immunosuppresants, immunocompromised individuals. Family history of melanoma or non melanoma skin cancers. Patients unwilling to participate in the study.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
To assess the clinical efficacy of topical permethrin 5% vs topical spinosad 0.9% in management of scabiesTimepoint: Baseline, Week One, Week Two, Week Four, Week six

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
To assess the safety and tolerability of topical permethrin 5% vs topical spinosad 0.9% in management of scabiesTimepoint: 6 weeks

Countries

India

Contacts

Public ContactDrNoorain Hamid Khan

Shri Bhausaheb Hire Government Medical College

drchetanrajput@yahoo.com8888487808

Outcome results

None listed

Source: CTRI (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Jun 11, 2026