NCT01444261

Prevention of Iron Deficiency in Breastfed Infants

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 219 (actual)
• Sponsor: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) · NIH
• Sex: All
• Age: 4 Weeks – 9 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

With early screening and appropriate iron supplementation, iron deficiency in the first year of life can be prevented in breastfed infants.

Detailed description

Infants with low ferritin at 1 month are at high risk of iron deficiency. They will receive iron drops starting at 2 months. All other infants are at low risk of iron deficiency. All infants will receive iron-fortified cereal starting at 4 months of age.

Conditions

• Iron Deficiency
• Anemia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Fer-in-Sol	Fer-in-Sol drops providing 7.5 mg iron in 0.3 ml per day given from 84 to 168 d of age and iron-fortified cereal
OTHER	control	No dietary supplements

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-12-01
• Primary completion: 2014-04-01
• Completion: 2014-04-01
• First posted: 2011-09-30
• Last updated: 2017-03-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States