Overview

Please see conventional, complementary, and alternative medical treatments for important background information regarding the different types of medical treatments discussed on this page. Naturopathic, Complementary, and Alternative treatments that may be considered include:


Treatment

Naturopathic, Complementary, and Alternative Treatments

Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN)

[Frech2011  🕮 ] reports a 3-case series in which LDN gave significant improvement in pruritus.

[Lee2016  🕮 ] reports that 50mg naltrexone has been observed to be useful for treating pruritus. in a clinical trial with 18 patients.

Dr. Weyrich has been trained to use Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN). However, Dr. Weyrich has not treated any cases of pruritis with LDN.

Please see What is Low Dose Naltrexone? for more information.


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