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Clinical Trials/NL-OMON52287
NL-OMON52287RecruitingPhase 3

Peppermint Oil for the treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome or Functional Abdominal Pain in Children: the MINT study - MINT-study

Sint Antonius Ziekenhuis0 sites240 target enrollmentStarted: TBDLast updated:
Conditions

Trial Snapshot

Phase
Phase 3
Status
Recruiting
Enrollment
240

Study Overview

Brief Summary

No summary available.

Study Design

Study Type
Interventional

Eligibility Criteria

Ages
2 to 17 (—)

Inclusion Criteria

  • Children aged between 8 and 18 years
  • Diagnosos of IBS or FAP-NOS according to the Rome IV-criteria.
  • Patients are required to have an average daily pain rate of >=2 on the
  • Wong-Baker Faces Pain Scale

Exclusion Criteria

  • Current treatment by another health care professional for abdominal symptoms
  • Previous use of peppermint oil for abdominal complaints
  • Known hypersensitivity to mints or peppermint oil
  • Gastrointestinal blood loss
  • Recurrent or unexplained fevers
  • Decreased growth velocity
  • History of previous abdominal surgeries in the past 3 months
  • Significant chronic health condition requiring specialty care (e.g., lithiasis,
  • ureteropelvic junction obstruction, sickle cell, cerebral palsy, hepatic,
  • hematopoietic, renal, endocrine, or metabolic diseases) that could potentially
  • impact the child*s ability to participate or confound the results of the study
  • Known concomitant organic gastrointestinal disease
  • Current use of drugs which influence gastrointestinal motility, such as
  • erythromycin, azithromycin, butyl scopolamine, domperidone, mebeverine and
  • Iberogast. If laxatives are being used (in patients with IBS-C) they can
  • continue using them during the study.
  • Current use of proton-pump inhibitors
  • Insufficient knowledge of the Dutch language
  • Pregnancy or current lactation. Women with childbearing potential must have a
  • negative urine pregnancy test within 7 days prior to first dose of study

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