Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine / 2014 / Article / Tab 1 / Research Article
Comparison between Chinese Herbal Medicines and Conventional Therapy in the Treatment of Severe Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease: A Randomized Controlled Trial Table 1 Characteristics of participants with severe HFMD.
Characteristic Conventional therapy group (
) Reduning injection combination therapy group (
) TCM formulas combination therapy group (
) Male,
(%) 73 (64.6) 83 (68.0) 79 (65.8) Mean age ± SD, y
Temperature,
(%) 37.5–38.0°C 38 (33.6) 42 (34.4) 41 (34.2) 38.1–39.0°C 60 (53.1) 58 (47.5) 62 (51.7) >39.0°C 15 (13.3) 22 (18.0) 17 (14.2) Symptom,
(%) Cough 9 (8.0) 9 (7.4) 13 (10.9) Sleepiness 29 (26.1) 25 (20.8) 27 (22.7) Headache 3 (2.7) 6 (5.0) 4 (3.4) Irritability 11 (9.8) 12 (10.0) 10 (8.5) Fatigue 66 (58.9) 69 (58.0) 73 (60.8) Skin or oral mucosal lesions 76 (67.2) 70 (57.4) 79 (65.8) Height (SD), cm 87.43 (13.48) 88.53 (14.34) 87.14 (11.47) Body weight (SD), kg 12.68 (2.94) 12.93 (3.75) 12.61 (3.07)
