Could a natural supplement calm ulcerative colitis?
NCT ID NCT07609810
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Sep 16, 2026 · Updated 4 times
Summary
This study tests whether a supplement called palmitoylethanolamide (PEA) can help people with mild-to-moderate ulcerative colitis. Researchers will measure changes in disease activity, quality of life, and inflammation markers in 60 participants. The goal is to see if adding PEA to standard treatment improves outcomes.
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Study facts
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- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 60 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
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Aug 2026
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Feb 2029
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 to 65 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Confirmed diagnosis of ulcerative colitis (UC) by established clinical and endoscopic criteria. * Active mild-to-moderate UC patients defined by a SCCAI score ≥ 5 and \< 12 at screening not responding to 5-aminosalicylates (5-ASA) defined as persistent rectal bleeding beyond 2 weeks or failure to achieve sustained symptom relief after 40 days of appropriate 5-ASA therapy (Harbord et al., 2017), receiving a combination of 5-ASAs and corticosteroids. Exclusion Criteria: * Pregnancy or breastfeeding. * Alcohol or drug abuse. * Allergy or known hypersensitivity to palmitoylethanolamide. * Active infection (enteric or systemic). * Uncontrolled metabolic/ neurologic conditions: uncontrolled hypertension, uncontrolled diabetes, migraine disorders or other uncontrolled neurologic disease. * Other autoimmune diseases. * Severe or acute severe colitis requiring hospitalization. * UC patients requiring colectomy. * Crohn disease (CD), chronic pancreatitis, cholecystitis or other inflammatory conditions involving the gastrointestinal tract (GIT). * Patients with renal or liver disease. * Patients who have never been treated for UC. * Any patients on biologics. * Patients using NSAIDs or aspirin (due to interference with fecal calprotectin results).
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Conditions
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The places running it
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology clinic, El-Demerdash Hospital
RECRUITINGCairo, El-Abbasia, 11252, Egypt
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