The purpose of this study is to determine whether Chinese medicinal herbs are effective and safe for treating novel influenza A (H1N1) infection.
The antiviral agent, oseltamivir, is recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) to treat recent outbreak novel influenza A (H1N1) virus infection around world. But limited stock and resistant strain emergence raised increasing concerns. Chinese medicinal herbs, are derived from plants and usually incorporate one or more herbs as the basic drug(s) to treat the disease. The investigators performed RCT to indicate that Chinese medicinal herbs was effective and safe for treating novel influenza A (H1N1) infection.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
102
Capital Medical University affiliated Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Beijing Respiratory Medicine Insititute
Beijing, China
time to resolution of fever (the period from start of study-drug to relief of fever)
Time frame: one year
time to resolution of respiratory symptoms(defined as the period from start of study-drug to relief of symptoms)
Time frame: one year
virus shedding time
Time frame: one year
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oseltamivir:75mg,p.o,bid,for 5 days; chinese medicinal herbs:200ml,p.o,qid,for 5 days