Relationship between chewing and tear production in healthy young subjects
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- healthy adult
- Registration Number
- JPRN-UMIN000043106
- Lead Sponsor
- Kitasato University
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete: follow-up complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 16
Inclusion Criteria
Not provided
Exclusion Criteria
(1) Subjects who do not like the mint taste. (2) Subjects who inability to chew gum. (3) Subjects with sufficiently severe dry eye such that refraining from blinking for 5 seconds was impossible. (4) Subjects had side effects (hyperemia and corneal erosion) caused by oxybuprocaine hydrochloride.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Value of tear production before and after chewing gum
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method