Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT03241355
Prebiotic Fructans on the Incidence of Acute Infectious Diseases in Children
Double-blind, Parallel, Randomized, (Placebo-controlled) Explorative Study on the Effect of a Mixture of Prebiotic Oligosaccharides on the Composition of Intestinal Microbiota and Selected Health Outcomes in Children 3 to 6 Years of Age
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 258 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Beneo-Institute · Industry
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 3 Years – 6 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
The study aims to explore whether prophylactic dietary supplementation with prebiotic inulin-type fructans is able to influence the intestinal microbiota and the frequency of infectious disease episodes in kindergarten children during a winter period.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT | prebiotic inulin-type fructan | |
| DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT | Placebo maltodextrin |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2013-09-16
- Primary completion
- 2014-04-28
- Completion
- 2014-04-28
- First posted
- 2017-08-07
- Last updated
- 2018-08-28
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03241355. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.