Abstract | OBJECTIVE: DESIGN: A randomized controlled trial. SETTING: A private chiropractic practice and the National Health Service's health visitor nurses in the suburb Ballerup (Copenhagen, Denmark). SUBJECTS: Infants seen by the health visitor nurses, who fulfilled the diagnostic criteria for infantile colic. INTERVENTION: OUTCOME MEASURE: Changes in daily hours of crying as registered in a colic diary. RESULTS: By trial days 4 to 7, hours of crying were reduced by 1 hour in the dimethicone group compared with 2.4 hours in the manipulation group (P = .04). On days 8 through 11, crying was reduced by 1 hour for the dimethicone group, whereas crying in the manipulation group was reduced by 2.7 hours (P = .004). From trial day 5 onward the manipulation group did significantly better that the dimethicone group. CONCLUSION:
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Authors | J M Wiberg, J Nordsteen, N Nilsson |
Journal | Journal of manipulative and physiological therapeutics
(J Manipulative Physiol Ther)
Vol. 22
Issue 8
Pg. 517-22
(Oct 1999)
ISSN: 0161-4754 [Print] United States |
PMID | 10543581
(Publication Type: Clinical Trial, Comparative Study, Journal Article, Randomized Controlled Trial, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
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Topics |
- Birth Weight
- Colic
(drug therapy, therapy)
- Crying
- Denmark
- Emollients
(therapeutic use)
- Female
- Gestational Age
- Humans
- Infant
- Infant, Newborn
- Male
- Manipulation, Spinal
- Maternal Age
- Simethicone
(therapeutic use)
- Single-Blind Method
- Treatment Outcome
- Weight Gain
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