Traveler's Constipation

Herlev Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Travel-Related Illness; Constipation

Treatments: Behavioral: Flight

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06155929

F-23025419

Details and patient eligibility

About

The occurence of traveler's constipation is sparsely covered in the medical litterature. This study aims to determine the gastrointestinal-related discomforts related to traveling on a trip to Turkey.

Full description

Traveler's constipation, which is characterized by the more hard and less frequent stools, is sparsely covered in the medical litterature. Only a few studies have examined this problem and the actual occurrence and extent of this problem is not known. Hypotheses about why travel constipation occurs are, among other things, about changed circadian rhythm due to jet lag, changed schedules and tight sanitary conditions. Other factors such as dehydration, change in cabin pressure and the content of the in-flight food in connection with flights have not been investigated.

The research project aims to clarify changes in the test subjects' bowel habits as well as other gastrointestinal-related discomforts in connection with a flight abroad with only an hour's time difference and without the consumption of flight food.

Enrollment: 35 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 100 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Can understand danish and is able to answer the questionnaires
• Given written consent

Exclusion criteria

• History of intestinal resection
• Medically treated intestinal disease
• IBS at baseline

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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35 participants in 1 patient group

Flight

Other group

Description:

The intervention is the flight to turkey and home to Denmark again.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Flight