Bitter Chocolate or Orange Juice for Non-reactive Non-stress Test (NST) Patterns

Dr. Sami Ulus Children's Hospital

Status

Completed

Conditions

Nonreassuring Fetal Status

Treatments

Dietary Supplement: Bitter chocolate

Dietary Supplement: Orange juice

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01680484

HEK 10/117-13

Details and patient eligibility

About

There are multiple factors affecting the variability and acceleration pattern of fetal heart rate (FHR) pattern. However, fetal activity is considered as the main determinant. Any factor decreasing fetal activity causes a decrease in FHR variability. Fetal activity may be stimulated by manual manipulation, sound, light, change in maternal position and maternal ingestion of glucose. Among those, ingestion of any kind of food or juice is most frequently practiced in outpatient settings. This is not only medical but also a social routine. In this study the investigators have chosen the two most popular so-called 'fetal accelerators', chocolate and orange juice against no intervention and tried to find any usefulness of these on non-reactive NST patterns.

Enrollment

180 patients

Sex

Female

Ages

18 to 45 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

singleton pregnancies at 36 to 41 completed gestational weeks that have a non-reactive NST pattern without decelerations.

Exclusion criteria

multiple pregnancies, fetal anomaly, hypertension, intrauterine growth restriction, active labor, contractions or decelerations on NST, absence of a first or second trimester ultrasonography for accurate gestational dating, pre-gestational or gestational diabetes and known allergy to chocolate or orange