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Effects of Helichrysum Psudoplicatum supplementation on pruritus intensity, fatigue, quality of life and anorexia in hemodialysis patients: a randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled trial

  • Maryam Mohajeranirad , Naser Saeidi , Mohammad Kamali Nejad , Amir Almasi-Hashiani , Mehdi Salehi and Seyed Amirhossein Latifi EMAIL logo
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Hormone Molecular Biology and Clinical Investigation
From the journal Hormone Molecular Biology and Clinical Investigation Volume 43 Issue 2

Abstract

Objectives

Anorexia, fatigue and pruritus are common complications of hemodialysis (HD) patients. Today, the use of medicinal plants is more than synthetic drugs due to their safety. Therefore, we designed a randomized controlled clinical trial to evaluate the effects of Helichrysum psudoplicatum (H. psudoplicatum) supplementation on biochemical parameters, pruritus intensity, fatigue, quality of life and anorexia in HD patients.

Methods

This randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial was performed on 50 subjects with, aged 55–65 years old. HD patients were randomly divided into two groups. Intervention group received 250 mg/day of H. psudoplicatum supplement capsule for 6 weeks (n=25), and the placebo group was given placebo capsule for the same time duration and dosage (n=25). The serum concentrations of urea, creatinine, albumin and hemoglobin were measured enzymatically methods. Anorexia, pruritus intensity, quality of life the dialysis patients with pruritus and fatigue score was measured using a Simplified Nutritional Appetite Questionnaire (SNAQ), Numerical rating scale (NRS), Fatigue severity scale (FSS) and ItchyQoL questionnaire, respectively. Shapiro–Wilk and independent-samples t-test or Mann–Whitney test were used for the analysis of the data.

Results

The results showed that the H. psudoplicatum supplementation significantly improved the pruritus intensity, quality of life the dialysis patients with pruritus and fatigue in HD patients, for 6 weeks (p<0.001). However, it did not significantly effect on the anorexia, albumin, hemoglobin, urea, creatinine, arm circumference, and body mass index (p>0.05).

Conclusions

According to the results of this study, H. psudoplicatum supplementation can be effective as an adjunct therapy to improve pruritus intensity, quality of life, fatigue and relative improvement of anorexia in HD patients.

Keywords: biochemical parameters; fatigue; Helichrysum psudoplicatum ; pruritus intensity; quality of life; supp-lementation
Corresponding author: Seied Amirhossein Latifi, Member of Traditional and Complementary Medicine Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Post code: 3848176941, Arak, Iran, Phone: +98-8634173505 (436), Mobile: +98-9133612815, Fax: +98-8634173521, E-mail:

Funding source: Arak University of Medical Sciences

Award Identifier / Grant number: 6086

  1. Research funding: This work was supported by funds from the Arak University of Medical Sciences (Grant number: 6086).

  2. Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.

  3. Competing interests: Authors state no conflict of interest.

  4. Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all individuals included in this study.

  5. Ethical approval: The study protocol was approved by the ethics committee of Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran. The grant number was 6087.

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Received: 2021-03-01
Accepted: 2021-11-07
Published Online: 2021-12-02

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Keywords for this article
biochemical parameters; fatigue; Helichrysum psudoplicatum; pruritus intensity; quality of life; supp-lementation

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  3. Review Articles
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