NCT01765998

The Effect of Probiotics on Exacerbation of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Exacerbation (Crohn's Disease)

The Effect of Probiotics on the Rate of Recovery of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Exacerbation (Crohn's Disease) and Markers of Inflammation

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: The Baruch Padeh Medical Center, Poriya · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is an immune mediated chronic intestinal condition. It includes ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease(CD). probiotics have been shown to be effective in varried clinical conditions ranging fron infantile diarrhea, necrotizing enterocolitis,helicobacter pylori infections, etc.

Detailed description

This is a prospective study that will enroll 50 patients with Crohn's disease.Each patient will get the study medication for 6 weeks and will be evaluated twice- before enrollment and after 6 weeks of treatment.

Conditions

• Crohn's Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Probiotic	Clinical evaluation according to the Crohn's activity scale
DRUG	Placebo

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-02-01
• Primary completion: 2014-02-01
• Completion: 2014-02-01
• First posted: 2013-01-11
• Last updated: 2013-01-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel