Vegetarian Tube Feed Study (Tube feed)

Nestlé

Status

Not yet enrolling

Conditions

Paediatric

Treatments

Dietary Supplement: paediatric tube feed

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Industry

Identifiers

NCT07378111

CPV tube feed PB002

IRAS ID 341165 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a single arm, prospective, single-centre study to evaluate the gastrointestinal tolerance and compliance over a 28-day period using a tube feed with food derived ingredients.

Full description

Acceptability (including gastrointestinal tolerance, compliance of a paediatric vegetarian tube feed with food derived ingredients. Gastrointestinal tolerance will data will be collected using a 4point Likert scale, daily record of tube feed volume intake.

Enrollment

25 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

1 to 15 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients from 1 -15 years requiring more than 50% of energy from tube feeding or to take alongside home-made blended diet as part of their dietary management for disease related malnutrition.
Patients well-established and stable on current nutritional support regimen. Willingly given, written, informed consent from patient/caregiver

Exclusion criteria

No established tube feed.
Inability to comply with the study protocol, in the opinion of the investigator.
Under 1 years of age
Patients on parenteral nutrition
Known food allergies, including to any ingredients listed in appendix 1.
Participation in another interventional study within 2 weeks of this study.
Patients with known or suspected ileus or mechanical bowel obstruction