Preliminary Long-Term Results of Homeopathic Treatment of Atopic Diseases in Adult Patients

Aim: To study the effect of homeopathic treatment on adult patients with atopic diseases visited at the Homeopathic Clinic of Lucca (Italy) and long-term evolution of the disease over approximately an 8-year period. Materials and Methods: Data derive from an observational longitudinal study carried out on 563 atopic adult patients who were consecutively visited from 1998 to 2017; 202 (35.9%) suffered from atopic dermatitis, 204 (36.2%) from allergic rhinitis, and 157 (27.9%) from asthma. Moreover, a long-term study was conducted on a subset of 45/104 adult patients, consecutively visited from 2006 to 2012, and with ≥ 5 years follow-up. The study also investigated the evolution of overall symptoms in those patients with a complex atopic symptomatology. Results: 69.3% of atopic adults had moderate or major improvement (71.1% with asthma as the primary disease; 69.8% rhinitis; 67.1% dermatitis). At re-evaluation after 5-12 years, complete remission of atopic symptoms was observed in 69.6% of adult patients: 100% in dermatitis; 59.2% in allergic rhinitis, 75% in asthma. Adult patients with more than one atopic diseases at the first visit were completely cured in 54.3% of cases. Conclusion: The results seem to confirm that homeopathic medicine produces positive therapeutic response also in adult atopic patients.