Efficacy of 2LALERG (Homeopathic Drug) in Allergic Rhinitis Related to Grass Pollen

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2017-04-07
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The primary objective of this study is to demonstrate the superiority of 2L®ALERG over placebo in terms of efficacy on the symptoms of allergic rhinitis and allergic rhinoconjunctivitis in patients with seasonal allergy to grass pollen, corrected according to rescue medication intake. The secondary objectives are to compare the allergy symptoms, the rescue medication intake, the quality of life and the safety in patients treated with 2L®ALERG or with a placebo.

This is a multicentre, randomized, double-blind, two-parallel group, interventional placebo-controlled study with a notified homeopathic medication, marketed since 2002.

Fifty patients will be recruited per group to achieve 40 cases completed per group, i.e., a total of 100 patients included for 80 cases completed.

Screening will be done before the peak of pollination and the treatment will be set up two months before traditional pollen peak, then visits at 3 months and 6 months, or end of the peak.

The treatment will consist of 1 capsule daily, fasting morning, following the numerical order of 1 to 10 capsules for 6 months.

The placebo will have the same form, colour, taste and aspect. The allowed concomitant treatments are the already established treatments for associated pathologies not liable to have an impact on the proper conduct of the study and the rescue medications allowed in the first-line adjuvant treatment (oral or topical antihistamines [nasal or eye] and eye cromoglycate, topical nasal corticosteroids [in case of failure or insufficiency of those above]).

The prohibited treatments are the oral or injectable corticosteroids and the anti-leukotrienes.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Labo'Life
• Collaborator: ECSOR

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age ≥18 years, male and female

• Woman of childbearing age using effective contraceptive means

• Patient having the faculties to understand and respect the constraints of the study

• Symptomatic since at least two seasons and confirmed by positive skin test and/or the presence of IgE for grasses (prick test defined as positive if higher than or equal to half the negative control; IgE positive if at least class 3 (≥ 3.5 kU / L); these tests must have been performed at the latest at the first screening visit

• Signature of the Informed Consent Form

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pregnant woman or woman wishing to become pregnant

• Breastfeeding woman

• Patient with an acute exacerbation of allergic rhinitis

• Patient with uncontrolled asthma

• Immunotherapy received within the last two years

• Patient with a known lactose intolerance

• Patient who participated in a clinical study in the previous three months

• Patient who is not sufficiently motivated to engage on a follow-up period of 6 months or more, unable to complete the patient diary, or likely to travel or to move before the end of the study,

• Patient taking nasal or bronchial inhaled corticosteroids on a long term basis (intermittent consumption during the season is permitted provided it is mentioned in the patient's records)