Tea Tree and Reduced Blepharitis Symptoms

• Swabs Containing Tea Tree Oil and Chamomile Oil Versus Baby Shampoo in Patients With Seborrheic Blepharitis: A Double-Blind Randomized Clinical Trial.

  • 2021-07-21
  • RCT · n = 26
  • Eye & contact lens 47(11)
  • • Burak Mergen
    • Burak Mergen
    • Ceyhun Arici
    • Ayse Yildiz-Tas
    • Hrisi Bahar-Tokman
    • Edip Tokuc
    • Yesim Ozturk-Bakar
    • Zekayi Kutlubay
    • Afsun Sahin

  • PubMed: 34310352
  • DOI: 10.1097/icl.0000000000000807

  8 Insights on

  • Reduced Blepharitis Symptoms

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  Patients using swabs showed significantly lower BLISS scores compared with patients using BS at the 4th, 8th, and 12th week visits (3.6±6.1 vs. 6.3±4.5 P=0.011; 1.1±2.8 vs. 6.6±6.7, P<0.001; 0.9±2.8 vs. 5.7±6.6, P=0.002, respectively).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  swabs containing tea tree oil and chamomile oil (not further specified)