Outcomes of Post-operative Diet in Children Following Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy

Georgetown University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Sleep Disordered Breathing; Chronic Tonsillitis

Treatments: Other: Diet modification

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03437954

Georgetown_Univeristy_MC

Details and patient eligibility

About

This research is being done because it is not known which dietary recommendations are best to help patients recover after a tonsillectomy and/or adenoidectomy. The purpose of this study is to determine how diet after tonsil/adenoid surgery affects bleeding, pain, and oral intake.

Full description

Currently it is not known which dietary recommendations are best to help patients recover after a tonsillectomy and/or adenoidectomy. Traditional standard of care is to recommend that patients be restricted to a soft diet post-operatively. However, the investigators believe that there may be benefit in allowing patients to eat a restriction-free diet. In this study, the investigators will compare the current standard of care verse a non-restricted diet. The purpose of this study is to determine how diet after tonsil/adenoid surgery affects bleeding, pain, and oral intake.

Enrollment: 86 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 3 to 12 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients 3-12 years undergoing tonsillectomy and/or adenoidectomy.

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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86 participants in 2 patient groups

Standard soft diet

Other group

Treatment:

Other: Diet modification

Non-restricted diet

Other group

Treatment:

Other: Diet modification