Effectiveness Study of Integrative Treatment for Pediatric Community Acquired Pneumonia

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 1969-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of traditional Chinese medicine for treatment of pediatric pneumonia. It is a multicenter randomized controlled trial.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
• Collaborator: Beijing University of Chinese Medicine
• Treatments: Azithromycin; Cephalosporins; Erythromycin; Erythromycin Estolate; Erythromycin Ethylsuccinate; Erythromycin stearate

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• children,aged 1 to 14 years old;

• diagnosed as pneumonia according to western medicine diagnostic criteria;

• diagnosed as TCM pneumonia with pneumonia with dyspnea and cough, meeting wind-heat blocking lungs pattern (feng re bi fei zheng), and phlegm-heat blocking lungs pattern(tan re bi fei zheng);

• disease progression within 72 hours; those whose guardians understood and assigned the informed consent;

Exclusion Criteria:

• severe pneumonia;

• complicated with other Pulmonary Disorders attack other than pneumonia;

• complicated with primary disease of heart(congenital heart disease, myocarditis, et al),liver(alanine aminotransferase(ALT),and aspartate transaminase(AST) ≥1.5 times of normal value ceiling),kidney (blood urea nitrogen(BUN) >8.2mmol/l, or serum C reactive protein >104umol/l,et al) and blood system (anemia) ,and those with psychopathy;

• allergic to interventional medications; those who are participating or have participated in other clinical trials in 3 months;

• those who intend to lost follow-up by practitioners' judgment.