Recurrent Crying Spells in Cerebral Palsy

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2013-08-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This is a study of recurrent crying spells in Spastic Cerebral Palsy patients and their treatment.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Sathbhavana Brain Clinic
• Treatments: Baclofen

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Recurrent Crying Spells in Cerebral Palsy with Spastic Quadriparesis.

• Age range 0-12 years.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Crying due to known causes (like hunger, sleep, food intolerance etc.),

• Crying that responded to routine management (changes in food or feeding techniques, anticolic, analgesics),

• Fever of ≥100.4ºF (38ºC),

• The infant refuses to eat or drink for more than a few hours, vomits excessively, has bloody stools, or has a change in behavior (lethargy or decreased responsiveness).

• Colic

• Worst ever crying occurring for the first time

• Respiratory, renal and hepatic diseases,

• Progressive encephalopathies,

• Received Baclofen in the previous 30 days