The effect of elasticity Belly® oil and Clarins® Tonic Body Treatment Oil in prevention of striae gravidarum: A randomized controlled clinical trial.
Objective: To compare the clinical efficacy of Elasticity Belly® oil and Clarins® Tonic Body Treatment Oil on the occurrence and severity of striae gravidarum. Design: Parallel randomized controlled clinical trial. Setting: Gynaecology and Obstetrics department, Shanghai Changning Maternity and Infant Health Hospital, China Interventions: We will enroll about 50 Nulliparous women randomly, who are in their second trimester of pregnancy. Volunteer's abdomen skin are divided into two parts through medioventral line, half of the abdomen skin will receive the elasticity Belly® oil to prevent striae gravidarum, and the other side will use the Clarins® Tonic Body Treatment Oil. Volunteers apply these two kinds of oil daily until gestational age of 38-40 weeks. We'll take abdomen pictures before and after interventions, and the occurrence of striae on abdominal skin and its severity will be evaluated as our primary outcome of the study.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
50
We will enroll about 50 Nulliparous women randomly, who are in their second trimester of pregnancy. We divide each of the volunteer's abdomen skin into two parts through medioventral line, one of the abdomen skin will receive the elasticity Belly® oil to prevent striae gravidarum, and the other side will use the Clarins® oil. Volunteers apply these two kinds of oil daily until birth. We'll take abdomen pictures before and after interventions, and the occurrence of striae on abdominal skin and its severity will be evaluated as our primary end point of the study.
Shanghai Changning Maternity & Infant Health Hospital
Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China
RECRUITINGoccurrence and severity of striae gravidarum
volunteer's abdomen skin are divided into two parts through medioventral line, half of the abdomen skin will receive the elasticity Belly® oil , and the other side will use the Clarins® Tonic Body Treatment Oil. Volunteers apply these two kinds of oil daily until birth. We'll take abdomen pictures before and after interventions, and the occurrence of striae on abdominal skin and its severity will be evaluated as our primary end point of the study.
Time frame: second trimester to term birth
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