Conditions: Acute Pharyngitis Sore Throat
Keywords: Pharyngitis Sore Throat acute upper respiratory tract infection (URTI)
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 122
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The study's purpose is to demonstrate the onset of action, i.e., time to meaningful pain relief in patients with pharyngitis, of flurbiprofen 8.75 mg lozenge using the Double-Stopwatch Method (DSW).

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: A single flurbiprofen lozenge is sucked until fully dissolved. arm 2: A single placebo lozenge is sucked until fully dissolved.

Interventions: intervention 1: flurbiprofen intervention 2: placebo
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: A single flurbiprofen 8.75 mg lozenge which also contains 1 mg of menthol in its vehicle base for flavour and taste purposes (blinding). Lozenge is sucked until dissolved, and not chewed, bit or swallowed. intervention 2: A single placebo lozenge which also contains 1 mg of menthol in its vehicle base for flavour and taste purposes (blinding). Lozenge is sucked until dissolved, and not chewed, bit or swallowed.

Protocol document: