NCT00647036

Microbial Invasion During Parenteral Nutrition in Surgical Infants Receiving Glutamine

Microbial Invasion During Parenteral Nutrition in Surgical Infants Receiving Glutamine.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: Institute of Child Health · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 3 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

We hypothesise that the addition of glutamine supplementation to both parenteral nutrition and enteral feeds in surgical newborn infants leads to a reduction in bacterial invasion.

Conditions

• Surgical Infants Requiring Total Parenteral Nutrition

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Isonitrogenous Vaminolact	Isonitrogenous Vaminolact
DRUG	Dipeptiven (L-glutamine- Lalanine)	0.6g/kg/day

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-07-01
• Primary completion: 2011-12-01
• Completion: 2012-05-01
• First posted: 2008-03-31
• Last updated: 2022-01-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom