A Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Effectiveness and Safety of Chinese Medicine in the Treatment of Mild Type of Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2011-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The study is aimed to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for treatment of hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD).

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
• Collaborators: Beijing University of Chinese Medicine; China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Clinical diagnosis of severe hand-foot-mouth disease patients according to Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease Treatment Guidelines 2010 issued by China's Ministry of Health; More than 1/3 patients should be diagnosed by etiological examination.

• Less than 48 hours of occurrence of fever and/or occurrence of tetter or herpes.

• Age of 1-14 years.

• Patients or their guardians agree to participate in this study and signed the informed consent form.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Complicated with other serious primary diseases in organ such as congenital heart disease, chronic hepatitis, nephritis and blood diseases, etc.

• With history of allergies on traditional Chinese medicine.

• Patients or their guardians suffering from Psychiatric diseases.

• Attending other clinical studies on HFMD after diagnosed.