Effect of Probiotic and Zinc Supplementations on the Clinical Outcome in Pediatric Patients With Ventriculitis

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2024-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The aim of the study is to evaluate the effect of non-antibiotic-based supplemental interventions in the management of ventriculitis among pediatric patients.

The study objective is to detect the efficacy of probiotics and zinc when taken simultaneously with antibiotic treatment as immunomodulatory in increasing the recovery rate in pediatric population affected with ventriculitis.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Ain Shams University
• Treatments: Zinc; Zinc Sulfate

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Pediatric patients admitted to neurosurgery department with the diagnosis of ventriculitis will be enrolled in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients suffering from any comorbidities other than ventriculitis such as cardiovascular, autoimmune diseases. etc .

• Patients with allergy to zinc.

• Patients with allergy to probiotics.