Status:

WITHDRAWN

Clinical Trial of Alanyl-Glutamine or Glycine in Children With Persistent Diarrhea or Malnutrition

Lead Sponsor:

University of Virginia

Collaborating Sponsors:

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

Conditions:

Diarrhea, Malnutrition

Eligibility:

All Genders

3-36 years

Phase:

PHASE3

Brief Summary

This is a double blinded randomized clinical trial of Alanyl-Glutamine or Glycine in children with persistent diarrhea or malnutrition. The primary objective of the study is to determine the effect of...

Detailed Description

This is a double blinded randomized clinical trial of Alanyl-Glutamine or Glycine in children with persistent diarrhea or malnutrition. The primary objective of the study is to determine the effect of...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Children ages 3 to 36 months with a history of persistent diarrhea (3 or more unformed stools/day) for \> 2 weeks or height-for-age Z-score (HAZ) less than -1, which is the median of HAZ scores in children at HIAS.
  • Be an inpatient and willing to stay for 7 nights at HIAS.
  • Child's parent or guardian must sign informed consent.

Exclusion

  • Children exclusively breast-fed (Reason: The diet needs to be controlled in order to evaluate the study treatment effect)
  • Children who participated in the "community study" or any other study within the past two years (Reason: The children in the "community study" will have received glutamine.)
  • Children with suspected other illnesses as indicated by fever \>102 degrees F at time of screening off antipyretics.
  • Children with suspected systemic disease at the time of screening including but not limited to shock, meningitis, sepsis, pneumonia, tuberculosis, varicella
  • Severe malnutrition defined as HAZ \<-3.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

August 1 2004

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

End Date :

April 1 2005

Estimated Enrollment :

108 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00338221

Start Date

August 1 2004

End Date

April 1 2005

Last Update

October 28 2008

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