The Effect of Probioticson Bloating in IBS

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2007-09-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

The purpose of the study is to establish an in-vitro method to evaluate the effect of probiotics on gas production in feces (hydrogen and methane)

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Denmark

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Female test persons with symptoms of meteorism, the age of > 18 years, completely integrated in the Danish society (including nutrition), and no previous abdominal surgery besides from appendicectomy (advertisement in a local newspaper for test persons).

Exclusion Criteria:

• Lactose and sorbitol intolerant persons (based on hydrogen breath tests).

• Persons with chronic ingestion of medicine, that might have an effect on gut bacterial flora or bowel motility.

• Persons taking antibiotics within 2 month prior to the trial

• Persons with diagnosed gastrointestinal disease other than IBS.

• Persons not able to understand and/or read Danish.

• Persons under age and persons with obvious problems remembering and sticking to the protocol (persons with dementia, psychological illness etc.)