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- Title
Acupuncture reduces crying in infants with infantile colic: a randomised, controlled, blind clinical study.
- Authors
Landgren, Kajsa; Kvorning, Nina; Hallström, Inger
- Abstract
To investigate whether acupuncture reduces the duration and intensity of crying in infants with colic. Patients and methods 90 otherwise healthy infants, 2-8 weeks old, with infantile colic were randomised in this controlled blind study. 81 completed a structured programme consisting of six visits during 3 weeks to an acupuncture clinic in Sweden. Parents blinded to the allocation of their children met a blinded nurse. The infant was subsequently given to another nurse in a separate room, who handled all infants similarly except that infants allocated to receive acupuncture were given minimal, standardised acupuncture for 2 s in LI4.
- Publication
Acupuncture in medicine : journal of the British Medical Acupuncture Society, 2010, Vol 28, Issue 4, p174
- ISSN
0964-5284
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1136/aim.2010.002394