NCT01339117

Delivered Dietary Intervention for Children With Irritable Bowel Syndrome

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Baylor College of Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 7 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a specific diet may help children with irritable bowel syndrome.

Detailed description

Many children experience stomach pain or discomfort at some point during their lives. Some children have belly discomfort frequently while others rarely have this problem. There have been very few studies to test treatments for recurrent stomach discomfort in children. Recently, studies in adults with recurrent stomach discomfort suggest that diet changes may help. Currently, we do not know if these same diets will work in children with the same problem. In this study, two different diets will be provided (delivered) for two days with at least 5 days in between each provided diet. The child's symptoms will be recorded over the two days of each diet. Children will be asked to capture samples of their breath during the last day of the each two day delivered diet. Stool samples will also be collected.

Conditions

• Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• Abdominal Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Low fermentable substrate diet	Diet low in fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides, and polyols.
OTHER	High fermentable substrate diet	Diet high in fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides and polyols

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-01-01
• Primary completion: 2016-12-01
• Completion: 2017-12-01
• First posted: 2011-04-20
• Last updated: 2021-01-22

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States