NCT03437954

Outcomes of Post-operative Diet in Children Following Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 86 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Georgetown University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 3 Years – 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This research is being done because it is not known which dietary recommendations are best to help patients recover after a tonsillectomy and/or adenoidectomy. The purpose of this study is to determine how diet after tonsil/adenoid surgery affects bleeding, pain, and oral intake.

Detailed description

Currently it is not known which dietary recommendations are best to help patients recover after a tonsillectomy and/or adenoidectomy. Traditional standard of care is to recommend that patients be restricted to a soft diet post-operatively. However, the investigators believe that there may be benefit in allowing patients to eat a restriction-free diet. In this study, the investigators will compare the current standard of care verse a non-restricted diet. The purpose of this study is to determine how diet after tonsil/adenoid surgery affects bleeding, pain, and oral intake.

Conditions

• Chronic Tonsillitis
• Sleep Disordered Breathing

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Diet modification	Patients will be randomized to follow the standard post-tonsillectomy diet at our institution, which consists of soft foods for ten days, or will be in the non-restricted diet group following surgery.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-12-15
• Primary completion: 2019-12-31
• Completion: 2019-12-31
• First posted: 2018-02-19
• Last updated: 2019-03-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States