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Nutritional Management of Infants With Chronic Diarrhea

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Growth and Tolerance Infant Study
Interventions
Other: Experimental Infant Formula
Registration Number
NCT01820494
Lead Sponsor
Abbott Nutrition
Brief Summary

The study objective is to assess the growth of infants fed an experimental formula for the nutritional management of chronic diarrhea.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
27
Inclusion Criteria
  • Less than or equal to 12 months of age at enrollment
  • Candidates for elemental feeding
  • Chronic diarrhea and diagnosis of one of the following conditions: short-bowel syndrome, eosinophilic gastroenteritis, food allergy, inflammatory bowel disease, pancreatic disease, protein maldigestion, HIV-advanced disease or other GI disease requiring an elemental diet or have underlying GI disease without chronic diarrhea if his/her chronic diarrhea is controlled or is in remission by a semi-elemental or elemental formula for no more than 13 weeks
  • Parents agree to feed infant with experimental formula for least 50% of total calories during study period
Exclusion Criteria
  • Any non-approved concomitant study

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
SINGLE_GROUP
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Experimental Infant FormulaExperimental Infant FormulaComplete amino acid-based infant formula
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
WeightStudy Day (SD) 1, 28 and 84

Change in weight from baseline.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Stool CharacteristicsStudy Day (SD) 2-4, 5-7, 25-27 and 81-83

Parent completed diary of stool consistency, frequency/volume.

Trial Locations

Locations (3)

Johns Hopkins Hospital

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Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Children's Hospital of Detroit

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Detroit, Michigan, United States

Children's Hospital

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Omaha, Nebraska, United States

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