Does the Negativation of the Glucose Hydrogen Breath Test Come Along With a Reduction of the Symptoms of Gaz Incontinence ?

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

Summary

The objectives of this work are: 1/to estimate the frequency of a positive glucose breath test in favour of a small intestinal bacterial overgrowth in a population of patients consulting for gaz incontinence by comparison to a population of control subjects; 2/to estimate versus a conventional treatment the efficiency of an antibiotic treatment; in case of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth diagnosed by the glucose breath test, to improve gaz incontinence

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University Hospital, Rouen
• Treatments: Metronidazole

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Gaz incontinence for more than 3 months

• Afflilied to national health security

• Having read and sign the information letter and consent form

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pregnancy

• use of antibiotics, probiotics, IPP for less tha n 3 months

• past of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth

• ischemic, inflammatory colitis,colo-rectal cancer

• diabetes

• allergy to metronidazole

• psychiatric disease

• patients who do not speak or read french