Treatment of Granuloma Umbilical in Newborn Babies

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2014-06-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The investigators want to show that steroid creme and even better alcohol swaps are just as effective or equal to the current treatment with silver nitrate of granuloma umbilical in newborns.

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Pernille Pedersen
• Collaborator: Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre
• Treatments: Ethanol; Silver Nitrate

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Gestational age more than 37 weeks

• More than 3 weeks old baby

• Granuloma umbilical diagnosed by a pediatrician

• No infections due to the umbilicus

• Parents do understand and speak danish

Exclusion Criteria:

• Gestational age less than 37 weeks

• Less than 3 weeks old baby

• Granuloma umbilical not diagnosed by a pediatrician

• Infections due to the umbilicus

• Parents do not understand or speak Danish