Adding Stewed Apricot Juice to Senna Improves the Right-Side and Overall Colon Cleansing Quality for Colonoscopy Preparation

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2015-06-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Adequate bowel cleansing is essential for optimal colonoscopic examination. However, none of the colonoscopy preparation regimens is safe, efficient and also comfortable. The investigators' aim was to determine whether adding stewed apricot juice to senna increases patient comfort and improves bowel cleansing during colonoscopy preparation.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Camlıca Erdem Hospital
• Treatments: Calcium; Calcium, Dietary; Pharmaceutical Solutions; Senna Extract; Sennoside A&B; Sennosides

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Outpatients with either sex who were over 18 years of age and referred for elective colonoscopy were included in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

• history of renal, cardiac, hepatic and metabolic disease including diabetes mellitus

• history of colonic resection

• hospitalized patients

• pregnancy or breast-feeding

• history of inflammatory bowel disease

• known allergy to senna.