NCT06722404

Synbiotics for the Management of Malnutrition (Children)

Effect of Synbiotics on Hematological Indices of Malnourished Children

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore - Pakistan · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Months – 59 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

In this study, dose related effect of synbiotics on the blood indices of severely acute malnourished (SAM) children (6-59 months) was carried out in hospitalized setting. Fifty SAM children were enrolled in a double-blind, randomized design.

Detailed description

The study was done at Nutrition Rehabilitation Unit (NRU), Department of Social \& Preventive Pediatrics, Mayo Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan, a Tertiary Care large urban teaching and referral hospital and was approved by human ethics Institutional Review Board (IRB) .Galacto-oligosaccharides (Oligomate) as prebiotics were procured from Yakult Pharmaceutical Industry, Japan and Resiton (lactobacillus paracasei subsp. paracasei) as probiotics were procured from MakNsons Pharmaceutical Industry, Italy. In the present study we enrolled 50 severely acute malnourished (SAM) in patients of 6-59 months of age while follow-up treatment was given at the out-patient department. We define SAM as weight-for height of less than 70% of the median, nutritional edema (Kwashiorkor), or both, mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) of less than 11.5cm. Anthropometry protocols were followed by research standards

Conditions

• Severe Acute Malnutrition

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Standard therapeutic foods	All children were initially fed F-75 (75 kcal/ 100mL) therapeutic milk (Phase I) and then progressed to F-100 (100 kcal/ 100mL) (Phase II) and Plumpy'nuts (F-100 in spread form with iron fortification) (Phase III) with follow-up for 48 days
COMBINATION_PRODUCT	Therapeutic foods plus Synbiotics	the intervention group received therapeutic foods plus synbiotics containing Oligomate that was fortified in F75 at the rate of 7.5 g/L containing 4.1 g/L GOS for 1 g/100 kcal dose and at the rate of 11.5 g/L containing 6.1 g/L GOS for 1.5 g/100 kcal dose while in F100 and Plumpy'nuts it was fortified at the rate of 10 g/L containing 5.5 g/L GOS for 1 g/100 kcal dose and at the rate of 15 g/L containing 8.25 g/L GOS for 1.5 g/100 kcal dose and Resiton (Lactobacillus paracasei sbsp. paracasei) 3 billion cfu/day and 6 billion cfu/day that were mixed in different combinations.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-03-07
• Primary completion: 2017-08-11
• Completion: 2017-10-19
• First posted: 2024-12-09
• Last updated: 2024-12-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Pakistan