Status:
COMPLETED
Air Cleaners for Children and Adolescents With Asthma and Dog Allergy
Lead Sponsor:
Sykehuset Innlandet HF
Collaborating Sponsors:
Incen AG
Conditions:
Asthma
Allergy
Eligibility:
All Genders
8-17 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The purpose is to find out if Icleen IQAir, HEPA-filter air cleaners with high capacity and pre-set speed functions, have a beneficial effect on patients with asthma and allergy to dogs. Air cleaners...
Detailed Description
Project leader: Leif Bjarte Rolfsjord, M.D., section leader, Paediatric Department Sykehuset Innlandet HF Elverum-Hamar; Ragnhild Halvorsen, M.D. Ph.D., Voksentoppen, Paediatric Clinic, Rikshospitalet...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Children and adolescents between 8 and 17 years of age at the start of the trial (born after 01 March '88, but before 01 September '97).
- Bronchial asthma, diagnosed by a physician, and confirmed by a physician at a paediatric department of a Norwegian Hospital.
- Allergy against dogs, confirmed by skin prick test. Average infiltrate at least 4 millimetres against dog, diagnosed by a new skin prick test at entry. For details about skin prick test, see attachment no. 6.
- Having had nose or breathing symptoms by contact with dogs, when no drugs against asthma or allergy have been taken.
- Able to co-operate at cold air hyperventilation test and spirometry (see attachment no. 2).
- Given written consent (by parents of children below 12; by parents and child when above 12, but below 16; by patient when above 16).
Exclusion
- Positive house dust mite skin prick test, with a more than 3 mm infiltrate.
- Having taken oral beta-2-agonists or theophylline preparations for the last 2 weeks before trial start, or oral steroids for the last 3 months before start of the trial.
- Active smoking.
- Dogs or cats in the home.
- Staying away from the home continuously for more than 14 days in the trial period or during the last month before trial start.
- Being an in-patient in a special department or institution for asthma and allergy in the trial period or the last 3 months before the trial.
- Having another chronic disease that can influence the results of ECP or cold air hyperreactivity tests.
- Other types of mechanical ventilation or air filtration systems in the homes, except for those for kitchen stoves.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
September 1 2005
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
April 1 2006
Estimated Enrollment :
22 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00220753
Start Date
September 1 2005
End Date
April 1 2006
Last Update
July 23 2009
Active Locations (1)
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Barnepoliklinikken, Sykehuset Innlandet HF
Hamar, Norway, N-2326