Feeding Bottle Design, Milk Intake and Infant Growth

Institute of Child Health

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Healthy Infants

Treatments: Device: partial-vacuum milk bottle; Device: anti-vacuum milk bottle

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00325208

06NT01

Details and patient eligibility

About

It is increasingly recognised that rapid growth in infancy may be associated with a greater risk of cardiovascular disease later in life. This trial will investigate whether the use of infant feeding bottles with different designs influences the milk intake and growth of infants. We will compare the growth of bottle-fed infants with that of a breast-fed reference group.

Sex: All

Ages: Under 7 days old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• healthy term infants birth weight >2.50kg, gestational age >37 weeks

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)