Dietary Factors and Disfluency: A Look Into Food Allergies and Other Environmental Triggers Associated With Variations in Severity of Vocal Cord Tension.

The R2 Institute

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Vocal Cord Tension; Dysfluency Developmental

Treatments: Other: Food Allergy Testing and Elimination Diet

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02547051

R2001AA

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to see whether participants with persistent developmental disfluency who report fluctuational disfluency due to vocal cord tension on a day to day basis of can achieve a more normalized fluency by identifying dietary allergen responses and subsequently eliminating these dietary triggers from their daily consumption.

Enrollment: 10 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16 to 75 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients reporting persistent developmental disfluency.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients reporting no changes in disfluency severity or frequency

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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10 participants in 1 patient group

Food allergy and vocal cord tension

Experimental group

Description:

To determine if dietary allergen responses and frequency and severity of vocal cord tension.

Treatment:

Other: Food Allergy Testing and Elimination Diet