Herbal Patch for Overactive Bladder

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2019-10-23
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Overactive bladder is a clinical syndrome characterized by frequency, with or without urge incontinence, urgency, and nocturia, which affect patients' sleeping quality and rehabilitation program progressing. Current treatments include behavioral therapy (eg, life style adjustment, bladder training, pelvic floor muscle therapy) and medication. Antimuscarinic agents is the most common medications prescribed for OAB, but patients often have side effects like dry mouth and constipation. And there were plenty of herbal medicine which are beneficial to urine frequency and voiding dysfunction in ancient Chinese medicine books and records. In human trial, 62 Subjects diagnosed as overactive bladder will be enrolled and treated with Cinnamon patch. After treatment we will estimate the efficacy and record adverse events to conduct statistically analysis.

• Phase: Phase 2/Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: En Chu Kong Hospital

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• urgency score of OABSS ≥ 2 or total score of OABSS ≥ 3

Exclusion Criteria:

• suffering from acute urinary tract infection

• recurrent urinary tract infection ≥ 5 times in the last year

• Hematuria or bladder stone disease

• using foley catheter

• Pregnant or breastfeeding women

• Spinal cord injury patients

• Mental illness or substance abuse

• taking medicine for the treatment of overactive bladder within one month