Status:
COMPLETED
The Effect of Chewing Gum on Small Bowel Transit Time
Lead Sponsor:
University of British Columbia
Conditions:
Bowel Transit Times
Eligibility:
All Genders
19+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to see if chewing sugarless chewing gum alters the time it takes for a capsule endoscopy to travel through the stomach and small bowel, and to see if more/less capsule end...
Detailed Description
The subjects will include patients already referred to us for a capsule endoscopy (CE) in this unit. We have calculated how many patients we need from small bowel transit times from the last 100 patie...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- All out-patients \> 19 years old presenting for capsule endoscopy
Exclusion
- Patients on narcotics
- Patients on motility enhancing and/or slowing drugs should stop these at least 5 days prior to the procedure or be excluded from the study.
- Patients, who have proven or suspected obstruction of the bowel.
- Patients, who have had prior small bowel and/or gastric surgery.
- Patients with an ileostomy.
- Patients who have a known and/or have a history of swallowing disorder
- Patients with diabetes and/or hypo-/hyper- thyroidism
- Patients in whom the capsule become impacted at a stricture (these patients will be taken out of the study and given the necessary medical/surgical treatment).
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
September 1 2010
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
July 1 2013
Estimated Enrollment :
122 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01241825
Start Date
September 1 2010
End Date
July 1 2013
Last Update
September 30 2014
Active Locations (1)
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St. Paul's Hospital
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6Z 2K5