The Effect of Chewing Gum on Small Bowel Transit Time

University of British Columbia

Status

Completed

Conditions

Bowel Transit Times

Treatments

Other: Trident sugarless chewing gum.

Other: One control group (these do not chew gum).

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01241825

H10-01726

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to see if chewing sugarless chewing gum alters the time it takes for a capsule endoscopy to travel through the stomach and small bowel, and to see if more/less capsule endoscopes reach the large bowel.

Full description

The subjects will include patients already referred to us for a capsule endoscopy (CE) in this unit. We have calculated how many patients we need from small bowel transit times from the last 100 patients who had a CE at our centre. We will include 122. These will be randomly divided into two groups. The patients (chew chewing gum) and the controls (do not chew chewing gum).

Enrollment

122 patients

Sex

All

Ages

19+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

All out-patients > 19 years old presenting for capsule endoscopy

Exclusion criteria

Patients on narcotics
Patients on motility enhancing and/or slowing drugs should stop these at least 5 days prior to the procedure or be excluded from the study.
Patients, who have proven or suspected obstruction of the bowel.
Patients, who have had prior small bowel and/or gastric surgery.
Patients with an ileostomy.
Patients who have a known and/or have a history of swallowing disorder
Patients with diabetes and/or hypo-/hyper- thyroidism
Patients in whom the capsule become impacted at a stricture (these patients will be taken out of the study and given the necessary medical/surgical treatment).