NCT03667118

Introduction and Maintenance of Still Eating Protein Blends in Support of Infant Nutritional Goals

Daily Ingestion of a Multi-Allergen Food Supplement by Infants: Clinical Symptoms, Reactions, and Acceptability - A Randomized Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 705 (actual)
• Sponsor: Northwestern University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 5 Months – 11 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study is to test a food supplement to: * Show that the food supplement is well tolerated and safe to feed to infants; * Find out how often parents/caregivers feed their infants the food supplement; * Find out how parents/caregivers usually add the food supplement to infants' regular solid or liquid food; and * Learn what aspects of the food supplement are more or less attractive to infants and to parents/caregivers.

Detailed description

The study involves parents/caregivers of infants, ≥ 5 months but \< 11 months of age. Parents who enrolled their infants complete a 1-month blinded placebo run-in period, followed by randomization to placebo or the food supplement. During the intervention period, infants randomized to the food supplement are fed a once daily, individual packet of the food supplement mixed into liquid (e.g., breast milk, infant formula) or solid (e.g., applesauce, pureed carrots) foods being fed to the infant. The food supplement is a blend of 16 common allergenic proteins (\[oat, milk, egg, sesame, wheat\] \[almond cashew, hazelnut, peanut, pecan, pistachios, soy, walnut\] \[cod, shrimp, salmon\]) combined with 400 IU of Vitamin D3. Parents complete a daily diary about any reactions or symptoms within 2 hours of ingesting the food supplement. Infants randomized to the placebo are also fed a once daily individual packet of the placebo mixed into liquid or solid foods being fed to the infant. Parents also complete a daily diary about any reactions or symptoms within 2 hours of ingesting the placebo.

Conditions

• Food Allergy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Food Supplement	A powder blend of 16 common allergenic proteins (\[oat, milk, egg, sesame, wheat\] \[almond cashew, hazelnut, peanut, pecan, pistachios, soy, walnut\] \[cod, shrimp, salmon\]) combined with 400 IU of Vitamin D3

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-06-18
• Primary completion: 2017-10-09
• Completion: 2017-10-09
• First posted: 2018-09-12
• Last updated: 2019-03-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States