Magnesium-aluminum hydroxide suspension for the treatment of dermal capsaicin exposures.

What Was Tested

Researchers studied Magnesium and Aluminum Hydroxide in this randomized controlled trial publication.

Who Took Part

The authors performed a double-blind, randomized, controlled, pilot study comparing the effect of MgAl with that of saline in the treatment of dermal capsaicin exposures.

How the Study Was Run

The design is described as randomized, double-blind and pilot.

Because people in this Magnesium study were split into groups at random, differences between the groups are less likely to reflect who happened to join each one.

As a double-blind Magnesium study, the assignments were hidden from both participants and investigators until the end.

It is described as a pilot, a small early test of whether a larger Magnesium study would be practical.

A dressing embedded with MgAl (Maalox) suspension was randomly applied to one arm and a saline-embedded dressing was applied to the other arm.

Pain was assessed on a 10-cm visual analog scale at 0, 10, 20, 30, 60, 90, and 120 minutes.

What Was Measured

Topics PubMed links to this paper include Administration, Cutaneous, Aluminum Hydroxide, Capsaicin, Drug Combinations, Magnesium, Pain and Pain Measurement.

What This Means in Plain Language

The paper is a randomized, double-blind and pilot study of Magnesium and Aluminum Hydroxide.

Its findings take up roughly 5 sentences of the abstract and are left out here on purpose; the source paper is the place to read them.

The publication is from 2003 (Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine), a journal based in United States.

More context: the related Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc library page, all human trials.