Background: Ginger is a spice with a long history of use as a traditional remedy for nausea and vomiting. No data on the efficacy of ginger are presently available for children with vomiting associated with acute gastroenteritis (AGE). Aim: To test whether ginger can reduce vomiting in children with AGE. Methods: Double-blind, randomised placebo-controlled trial in outpatients aged 1 to 10 years with AGE-associated vomiting randomised to ginger or placebo. The primary outcome was the occurrence of ≥1 episode of vomiting after the first dose of treatment. Severity of vomiting and safety were also assessed. Results: Seventy-five children were randomised to the ginger arm and 75 to the placebo arm. Five children in the ginger arm and 4 in the placebo arm refused to participate in the study shortly after randomisation, leaving 70 children in the ginger arm and 71 in the placebo arm (N = 141). At intention-to-treat analysis (N = 150), assuming that all children lost to follow-up had reached the primary outcome, the incidence of the main outcome was 67% (95% CI 56 to 77) in the ginger group and 87% (95% CI 79 to 94) in the placebo group, corresponding to the absolute risk reduction for the ginger versus the placebo group of −20% (95% CI −33% to −7%, P = 0.003), with a number needed to treat of 5 (95% CI 3 to 15). Conclusion: Oral administration of ginger is effective and safe at improving vomiting in children with AGE. Trial registration: The trial was registered on https://clinicaltrials.gov/ with the identifier NCT02701491.

Efficacy of ginger as antiemetic in children with acute gastroenteritis: a randomised controlled trial / Nocerino, R.; Cecere, G.; Micillo, M.; De Marco, G.; Ferri, P.; Russo, M.; Bedogni, G.; Berni Canani, R.. - In: ALIMENTARY PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS. - ISSN 0269-2813. - 54:1(2021), pp. 24-31. [10.1111/apt.16404]

Efficacy of ginger as antiemetic in children with acute gastroenteritis: a randomised controlled trial

Nocerino R.;Cecere G.;Bedogni G.;Berni Canani R.
2021

Abstract

Background: Ginger is a spice with a long history of use as a traditional remedy for nausea and vomiting. No data on the efficacy of ginger are presently available for children with vomiting associated with acute gastroenteritis (AGE). Aim: To test whether ginger can reduce vomiting in children with AGE. Methods: Double-blind, randomised placebo-controlled trial in outpatients aged 1 to 10 years with AGE-associated vomiting randomised to ginger or placebo. The primary outcome was the occurrence of ≥1 episode of vomiting after the first dose of treatment. Severity of vomiting and safety were also assessed. Results: Seventy-five children were randomised to the ginger arm and 75 to the placebo arm. Five children in the ginger arm and 4 in the placebo arm refused to participate in the study shortly after randomisation, leaving 70 children in the ginger arm and 71 in the placebo arm (N = 141). At intention-to-treat analysis (N = 150), assuming that all children lost to follow-up had reached the primary outcome, the incidence of the main outcome was 67% (95% CI 56 to 77) in the ginger group and 87% (95% CI 79 to 94) in the placebo group, corresponding to the absolute risk reduction for the ginger versus the placebo group of −20% (95% CI −33% to −7%, P = 0.003), with a number needed to treat of 5 (95% CI 3 to 15). Conclusion: Oral administration of ginger is effective and safe at improving vomiting in children with AGE. Trial registration: The trial was registered on https://clinicaltrials.gov/ with the identifier NCT02701491.
2021
Efficacy of ginger as antiemetic in children with acute gastroenteritis: a randomised controlled trial / Nocerino, R.; Cecere, G.; Micillo, M.; De Marco, G.; Ferri, P.; Russo, M.; Bedogni, G.; Berni Canani, R.. - In: ALIMENTARY PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS. - ISSN 0269-2813. - 54:1(2021), pp. 24-31. [10.1111/apt.16404]
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