NCT02389478

Oropharyngeal Administration of Colostrum to Very Low Birth Weight Infants

Oropharyngeal Administration of Colostrum to Very Low Birth Weight Infants：Effects on Secretory Immunoglobulin A

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 64 (actual)
• Sponsor: Children's Hospital of Fudan University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 1 Day – 1 Month
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to explore the effects of Oropharyngeal administration of colostrum to very low birth weight infants on sIgA and lactoferrin, in order to explore the protect immune function of colostrum to very low birth weight infants, to improve the utilization of breast milk and reduce infection rates of very low birth weight infants.

Detailed description

The number of very low born weight infants increased every year.they are suffer from many questions.Recent studies have shown that Oropharyngeal administration of colostrum to very low birth weight infants can reduce the time reach full enteral nutrition .But there are no evidence support that it can promote infants' immune response. The hypothesis of the current study is that Oropharyngeal administration of colostrum to very low birth weight infants may increase the secretion of sIgA in urine and saliva. The current study adopts randomized, double blind, controlled intervention trial, gives Oropharyngeal administration of colostrums to very low birth weight infants in intervention group and Oropharyngeal administration of Normal saline to control group. All indicators in this study are discrete traits, for sIgA、Lactoferrin number in Saliva and urine， number of CRP，time Begin oral feeding，time up to full enteral feeding， Person's chi-square tests were used for comparisons. For Blood culture results，The number of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) occurred， the investigators use Chi-square tests for comparisons between two groups. The study expects that Oropharyngeal administration of colostrum to very low birth weight infants can increase the secretion of sIgA in urine and saliva.

Conditions

• Infant, Very Low Birth Weight

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Oropharyngeal administration of colostrums	rubbing drops of colostrum inside a baby's cheeks using a sterile syringe
PROCEDURE	Oropharyngeal administration of Normal saline	rubbing drops of Normal saline inside a baby's cheeks using a sterile syringe

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-03-01
• Primary completion: 2015-10-01
• Completion: 2015-10-01
• First posted: 2015-03-17
• Last updated: 2015-11-10