Ayurveda Self-Management for Flu Like Symptoms During the Covid-19 Outbreak

Ayurveda Self-Management for Flu Like Symptoms in People Self-Isolated for 7 Days During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreak

From the end of January 2020, Coronavirus disease 2019 began to spread in United Kingdom (UK). During the same time, seasonal flu continued to circulate across the UK. With similar course of management at early stages, flu like symptoms were self-isolated to prevent the spread and further complications of infection. Present study aimed to evaluate the effect of self-managed Ayurveda on flu like symptoms in people who self-isolated at home for 7-days in March 2020 during the Covid-19 outbreak in UK.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Flu Like Symptom; Flu Like Illness
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Individualised Ayurveda

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 18
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United Kingdom
  • Leicester, United Kingdom
    • Aarogyam

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 60 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Flu like symptoms present at least one respiratory symptom (e.g. cough, nasal obstruction, sore throat) and at least one constitutional symptom other than fever (e.g. fatigue, headache, myalgias) of less than 48-hour duration
• Willing to consent and follow up

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pregnant/lactating
• Participants with chronic pulmonary diseases or critical condition or already developed severe respiratory distress
• Clinically malignancies, systemic infection, other medical or psychiatric condition which places the subject at unacceptable risk to participate in the study - Known hypersensitivity to any ayurveda herbal substances

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Ayurveda; All the participants were advised to self-isolate for 7-days and maintain hygiene and self-care as per recommended guidelines. Along with that, participants were advised to constitution based Ayurveda treatment using herbs, life style and yoga.	Other: Individualised Ayurveda; Saline warm water gargle, Steam, Paracetamol for body temperature and plenty fluid and rest, Food and herbs recommendation as per individual Ayurveda constitution, Using Ginger/ lemon/ turmeric/ honey recommended as per individual, Yoga breathing

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Time to achieve afebrile	Time to bring down a fever (oral temperature < 37.2˚C)	From Baseline to 3rd and 7th-days of intervention

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Severity of influenza symptom score	Symptoms diary card completed twice daily from Day 0 to Day 7	Twice daily from Day 1 to Day 7

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Aarogyam UK
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Neha Sharma, Aarogyam UK; Study Director: Jaydeep Joshi, Aarogyam UK

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): February 26, 2020
• Primary Completion (Actual): March 30, 2020
• Study Completion (Actual): March 30, 2020

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 10, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 10, 2020
• First Posted (Actual): April 14, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): April 14, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 10, 2020
• Last Verified: April 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: AU08

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No