Status:
COMPLETED
Significance of an Elimination and Provocation Diet in Patients With Chronic Urticaria
Lead Sponsor:
University Hospital Muenster
Conditions:
Urticaria
Angioedema
Eligibility:
All Genders
7-80 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Patients with chronic urticaria undertake a five week elimination diet (pseudoallergen free diet). The efficacy of the diet will be determined by symptom score, by the use of rescue medication (oral a...
Detailed Description
Chronic urticaria is defined as a daily or almost daily spontaneous occurrence of wheals that cause itching and lasting for at least six weeks. If there is no indication of a possible eliciting agent ...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- signed informed consent
- chronic urticaria (duration: at least 6 weeks)
- patients who suffered from urticaria and/or angio oedema at least once a week for a duration of at least 4 weeks)
- Males and females, age between 7 and 80 years
- inpatients and outpatients
- oral antihistamines and glucocorticosteroids are allowed as concomitant medication (if needed)
Exclusion
- pregnant or breastfeeding woman
- patients suffering from diabetes mellitus
- patients with cachexia
- known food allergies of food which will be administrated within the elimination diet (e.g. milk, cereals)
- isolated urticaria with known aetiology (e.g. physical urticaria, aquagene urticaria, urticaria factitia, cholinergic urticaria), Urticaria pigmentosa mastocytoses)
- patients, seemed to be uncompliant under suspicion of the investigator
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
January 1 2005
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
End Date :
April 1 2007
Estimated Enrollment :
150 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00385372
Start Date
January 1 2005
End Date
April 1 2007
Last Update
January 29 2009
Active Locations (1)
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University Clinics of Münster, Department of Dermatology
Münster, Germany, 48149