NCT06497907

Environmental Enteropathy Among Infants and Children With Growth Faltering

Prevalence of Environmental Enteropathy Among Infants and Children With Growth Faltering

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 200 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ain Shams University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Months – 5 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study was conducted on 200 patients with growth faltering on 2 phases. In the first phase the patient received nutritional rehabilitation with polymeric formula for 12 weeks then they were reassessed by anthropometric measurements and those whose weight remained below -2 SD for age and sex on the WHO scores were defined as non responders and entered the second phase. In the second phase Upper Gastrointestinal endoscopy was done and then patients received nutritional rehabilitation with peptide based formula and probiotics then were reassessed after 8 weeks.

Conditions

• Growth Failure
• Enteropathy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	polymeric formula	Patients with growth faltering received nutritional rehabilitation with polymeric formula and were reassessed after 12 weeks by anthropometric measurements
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	peptide based formula	patients who were defined as non responders and underwent upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and diagnosed as environmental enteropathy, received nutritional rehabilitation with peptide based formula

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-04-30
• Primary completion: 2023-06-12
• Completion: 2024-06-25
• First posted: 2024-07-12
• Last updated: 2024-07-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt