Probiotic Administartion to Mothers of Preterm Infants to Prevent Necrotizing Enterocolitis and Sepsis

• Status: Terminated
• Trial end date: 2009-07-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

We hypothesize that supplementing maternal diet with probiotics will decrease the incidence of feeding intolerance, necrotizing enterocolitis and sepsis in preterm infants fed breastmilk.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Mothers of preterm infants

• Pumping breast milk

Exclusion Criteria:

• Neonatal congenital anomalies