Different treatment of children suffering from worms

Not Applicable

Conditions: Health Condition 1: B820- Intestinal helminthiasis, unspecified

Registration Number: CTRI/2023/04/051596

Lead Sponsor: D N De Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Open to Recruitment

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 0

Inclusion Criteria

1) Patients suffering from intestinal nematodes (B82. 0) for 3 months or more

2) Age between 3 and 18 years

3) Patients of either sex, and transgender

4) Literate patients; ability to read English and/or Bengali or illiterate patient will be interviewed by the investigators maintaining adequate privacy to fill up the scale or questionnaires.

5) Providing written informed assent and/or consent voluntarily to participate in the trial.

6) The patient reporting to the OPD will be screened for the following symptom and the subject with minimum 5 of the following symptoms will be included in the study.

a) Pain around the umbilics.

b) Pruritus (itching or pain around anus)

c) Hypopigmented patches in skin

d) Pallor

e) Nausea and vomiting

f) Headache

g) Gastric distension

h) Loss of appetite

i) Diarrhea

j) History of passing intestinal nematodes in the stool

Exclusion Criteria

1) Systemic complications due to intestinal nematodes infestation

2) Acute gastro enteritis

3) Amoebiasis

4) Acute abdomen (appendicitis)

5) Vulnerable population â?? unconscious, non-ambulatory, too sick for consultation, differently abled, terminally ill or critically ill patients, mentally incompetent people

6) Diagnosed cases of unstable mental or psychiatric illness or other uncontrolled or life-threatening illness affecting quality of life or any organ failure

7) Patients having the history of tobacco chewing and/or smoking, alcoholism and/or any other form(s) of substance abuse and/or dependence

8) Self-reported immune-compromised state

9) Already undergoing homeopathic treatment for chronic disease within last 1 month

10) Simultaneous participation in any other clinical trial

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
umber of patients with stool specimen positive for ova-parasites-cysts of intestinal nematodesTimepoint: Baseline, after 1 month and 3 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Pediatric Quality of Life (PEDSQL) scoreTimepoint: Baseline, and every month, up to 3 months;Reducing symptoms - anal itching and discomfort, passing of gastrointestinal helminths in stool, abdominal pain, nausea, pallor, vomiting, diarrhea, anorexia, unusual irritability, weight loss, headache and pruritus skinTimepoint: Baseline, and every month, up to 3 months