Quinine for night cramps.

Quinine for night cramps.

counselling. Fellow workers as well as employers should be well informed and concerned. A protective code of practice was thought desirable; but the Manpower Services Commission produced a good one on disability in general last year, and that is not well enough known.7 It is highly relevant to epilepsy both on recruitment and on promoting the interests of existing employees. In the spirit of th...

Quinine for Leg Cramps.

Practice Pointers Muscle cramps affect between 50% and 60% of adults.1 Little is known about their pathophysiology, so many remedies are used empirically. A crystalline alkaloid powder extracted from the bark of the South American cinchona tree, quinine is well known for its use in treating malaria and providing the bitter flavor for tonic water. Quinine has been used by the Quechua of South Am...

Quinine: not a safe drug for treating nocturnal leg cramps.

Quinine for nocturnal leg cramps: a meta-analysis including unpublished data.

OBJECTIVE With respect to the use of quinine for the treatment of nocturnal leg cramps, to determine whether the findings of a previously performed meta-analysis of published data are altered with the addition of unpublished data, and whether publication bias is present in this area. DESIGN A meta-analysis of eight (four published and four unpublished) randomized, double-blind, placebo-contro...

Meta-analysis of efficacy of quinine for treatment of nocturnal leg cramps in elderly people.

OBJECTIVE To assess quantitatively the efficacy of quinine (as quinine sulphate) compared with placebo in the treatment of nocturnal leg cramps. DESIGN A meta-analysis of six randomised, double blind, crossover trials. SETTING Randomised trials that were available as of April 1994. SUBJECTS A total of 107 general ambulatory patients who suffered from regular nocturnal leg cramps from six ...