Azithromycin added to ointments for children with atopic dermatitis
Tests adding azithromycin to skin ointments in children with mild to moderate eczema.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Cairo University
- Where
- Cairo, EgyptSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Azithromycin in Atopic Dermatitis
- Status
- Not yet recruiting
- Phase
- Phase 4
- People taking part
- 40 people, planned
- Started
- 1 Aug 2026
- Expected to end
- Jan 2027
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets an existing treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- Betamethasone or tacrolimus ointments
- Azithromycin
- Record updated
- 20 July 2026
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for children aged 3 to 12 years with mild to moderate atopic dermatitis. It tests adding azithromycin to skin treatment.
- Age
- 3 to 12 years
- Sex
- Both boys and girls can join.
- Disease stage
- Mild to moderate atopic dermatitis.
- Earlier treatment
- Children on active systemic treatment for atopic dermatitis cannot join.
Main reasons for not taking part
- Atopic dermatitis on active systemic treatment
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Both genders, ages from 3 to 12 years old with mild to moderate atopic dermatitis
Who cannot take part
- Atopic dermatitis on active systemic treatment
Check if you might fit
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 3 and 12 years old?
Where in Egypt
- Cairo UniversityCairo, EgyptContact: Amira Elbendary, MDNot yet recruiting
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
The study will evaluate the role of adding azithromycin to topical treatment in patients with mild to moderate atopic dermatitis
The 2 groups in the trial
- Topical corticosteroids and tacrolimusExisting treatment, for comparison
Atopic dermatitis patients on topical betamethasone and tacrolimus ointments
Treatment: Betamethasone or tacrolimus ointments
- AzithromycinTreatment being tested
Atopic dermatitis treated with azithromycin besides topical betamethasone and tacrolimus ointments
Treatment: Betamethasone or tacrolimus ointments and Azithromycin
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Evaluation of the Value of Adding Azithromycin to Topical Treatment in Mild to Moderate Atopic Dermatitis
- Plain-language title
- Azithromycin added to ointments for children with atopic dermatitisGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 13 November 2026.
- Fit questions
- Built from NCT07713186, who can take part
- Record updated
- 20 July 2026