Tea Tree and Reduced Demodex Count

• 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 Demodex Count

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  Despite a similar Demodex reduction effect in both treatment arms even after 4 weeks of treatment (P<0.001)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

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