Conditions: Chronic Idiopathic Urticaria
Keywords: Chronic Idiopathic Urticaria CUTE Levocetirizine Xyzal®
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 886
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
A study to compare the clinical efficacy and safety of Levocetirizine vs. Desloratadine in patients suffering from Chronic Idiopathic Urticaria (CIU) measured by the mean pruritus severity score over the first week of treatment

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Levocetirizine, once daily, 4 week duration arm 2: Desloratadine, once daily, 4 week duration

Interventions: intervention 1: Levocetirizine intervention 2: Desloratadine
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: 5mg oral capsules, once daily, 4 week duration intervention 2: 5mg oral capsules, once daily, 4 week duration

Protocol document: