Effect of Chlorhexidine Skin Cleansing on Skin Flora

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2005-03-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Given the potential of skin cleansing with chlorhexidine as a safe, feasible, and cost-effective intervention for reducing neonatal death in developing country settings, this study follows a trial already underway in Nepal to test the impact of a single cleansing of the skin with baby wipes cotaining chlorahexidine.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Treatments: Chlorhexidine; Chlorhexidine gluconate

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Infant admitted to Special Care Nursery at Dhaka Shishu Hospital less than 48 hours chronological age

• parental consent must be obtained

Exclusion Criteria:

• infants being admitted for major surgical procedure which is attended by high rate of infectious complications

• sepsis

• clinically-evident skin infection

• generalized skin disease

• structural defect of the skin involving greater than 5% of the body surface

• with a major congenital anomaly

• with a known immunodeficiency