NCT02363582

The Impact of a Prebiotics and Lactoferrin Containing Infant Formula on Stool Characteristics in Healthy Term Infants

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 65 (actual)
• Sponsor: Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 5 Weeks – 7 Weeks
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Human milk (HM) is considered the gold standard nutrient for infants, which contains a lot of beneficial nutrients such as prebiotics and lactoferrin. Previous studies have shown that both prebiotics and lactoferrin play important roles in generating a bifidobacteria-dominated colonic microflora.The purpose of this study is to investigate the stool characteristics,acceptability, and gastrointestinal tolerance in term infants fed a starting infant formula supplemented with prebiotics and lactoferrin.

Detailed description

Human milk (HM) is considered the gold standard nutrient for infants, which contains a lot of beneficial nutrients such as prebiotics and lactoferrin. Previous studies have shown that both prebiotics and lactoferrin play important roles in generating a bifidobacteria-dominated colonic microflora as well as the intestinal immune systems. The purpose of this study is to investigate the stool characteristics（including intestinal microbiota） acceptability, and gastrointestinal tolerance in infants fed a starting infant formula supplemented with prebiotics and lactoferrin, and compared these data with infants on exclusively breast feeding.

Conditions

• Infant Formula Intolerance

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	formula	An infant formula contains prebiotics and lactoferrin

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-06-01
• Primary completion: 2015-06-01
• Completion: 2015-07-01
• First posted: 2015-02-16
• Last updated: 2016-04-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China