Dandelion Juice in the Treatment of Dyshidrotic Hand Eczema

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2019-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Dandelion juice has been used in herbal medicine for at least 1000 years. Vesicular hand eczema is a rare, but difficult to treat, type of hand eczema. One case report has shown that ingestion of dandelion juice could induce a beneficial effect on this type of eczema. The purpose of this study is to test whether this effect can be retrieved in other patients.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Odense University Hospital

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adult patients with dyshidrotic eczema for at least 1 year and negative patch test reactions to Compositae (tested within the last 3 years) and normal renal and hepatic blood tests.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Treatment with systemic steroids or other immunosuppressive/-modulating drugs, including UV therapy, within the last 3 months.

• Pregnancy, lactation.

• Compositae contact allergy.

• Liver or gall bladder disease.

• Abnormal renal or hepatic blood tests.