NCT00512824

Calcium, Probiotics and Acute Diarrheal Disease Among Indonesian Children

Calcium, Probiotics and Acute Diarrheal Disease Among Indonesian Children Aged 1-6 Years in Low Socio-economic Urban Area of East Jakarta

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 494 (actual)
• Sponsor: Wageningen University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 1 Year – 6 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This is a long term study on the efficacy of dietary calcium with or without probiotic strains in reducing the mean number of episodes and duration of diarrheal disease.

Conditions

• Healthy
• Diarrhea

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	low calcium milk of 180 ml	twice daily for 24 weeks
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	regular milk of 180 ml	twice daily for 24 weeks
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	regular milk of 180 ml + probiotics	twice daily for 24 weeks
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	regular milk of 180 ml + probiotics	twice daily for 24 weeks

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-08-01
• Primary completion: 2008-09-01
• Completion: 2008-09-01
• First posted: 2007-08-08
• Last updated: 2011-01-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Indonesia