Role of Vitamin D Supplementation as an Adjuvant Therapy inTreatment of Helicobacter Pylori in Children

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Trial end date: 2023-12-10
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

To study the efficacy of vitamin D in conjunction with Helicobacter pylori treatment in children in eradication of helicobacter pylori.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Minia University
• Collaborator: Ain Shams University
• Treatments: Cholecalciferol; Vitamin D

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age:4-18 years children with symptomatic H pylori infection presenting with (epigastric pain, persistent vomiting and hematemesis)diagnosed by upper gastrodeudonoscopy , rapid urease test and histopathologic examination of gastric biopsies from antrum and body of the stomach.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient on vitamine D supplémentation

• Patient who has defect in vitamin D metabolism (chronic renal and hepatic patients, malabsorption syndromes)

• Patients who had received treatment of H.pylori previously .