Intravenous Fluids Versus Naso/Orogastric-tube Feeding in Hospitalized Infants With Bronchiolitis

Bnai Zion Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Viral Bronchiolitis

Treatments: Procedure: IV fluids; Procedure: Naso/oro gastric tube feedings

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01189149

115/08

Details and patient eligibility

About

Oro- or nasogastric tube feeding is safe and may be more physiologic than intravenous (IV) fluids in hospitalized infants with acute viral bronchiolitis.

Enrollment: 35 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 day to 6 months old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Infants with bronchiolitis < 6 months who need to be hospitalized and are not able to eat per os.

Exclusion criteria

• Infants with severe bronchiolitis not allowed to get any gastric feeds or those that their parents will not sign an informed consent.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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35 participants in 2 patient groups

IV fluids

Experimental group

Description:

Infants will get IV fluids whem indicated until able to tolerate full oral feedings

Treatment:

Procedure: IV fluids

Oro/naso gastric tube feeding

Experimental group

Description:

Infants will get oro/naso gastric tube feeding whem indicated until able to tolerate full oral feedings

Treatment:

Procedure: Naso/oro gastric tube feedings