Effect of Oral Zinc Sulfate on Jaundice in Neonates Admitted to Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Status:
Not yet recruiting
Trial end date:
2022-08-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
A randomized double-blind clinical trial will be performed in the neonatal intensive care
unit of Makassed General Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon from December 2021 till August 2022.
Randomized opaque envelopes to allocate the treatment will be used. The study will include
neonates aged between 26 and 42 gestational weeks, who require phototherapy in the neonatal
intensive care unit. Patients will be randomized into two groups.Both groups will receive
standard conventional phototherapy, but the intervention group will receive 10 mg per day
oral zinc sulfate until discharge.