NCT01680484

Bitter Chocolate or Orange Juice for Non-reactive Non-stress Test (NST) Patterns

Bitter Chocolate Versus Orange Juice for Non-reactive Non-stress Test (NST) Patterns: A Randomized Prospective Controlled Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 180 (actual)
• Sponsor: Dr. Sami Ulus Children's Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

There are multiple factors affecting the variability and acceleration pattern of fetal heart rate (FHR) pattern. However, fetal activity is considered as the main determinant. Any factor decreasing fetal activity causes a decrease in FHR variability. Fetal activity may be stimulated by manual manipulation, sound, light, change in maternal position and maternal ingestion of glucose. Among those, ingestion of any kind of food or juice is most frequently practiced in outpatient settings. This is not only medical but also a social routine. In this study the investigators have chosen the two most popular so-called 'fetal accelerators', chocolate and orange juice against no intervention and tried to find any usefulness of these on non-reactive NST patterns.

Conditions

• Nonreassuring Fetal Status

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Bitter chocolate
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Orange juice

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-02-01
• Primary completion: 2011-12-01
• Completion: 2012-01-01
• First posted: 2012-09-07
• Last updated: 2012-09-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)