Timing of Iron Supplementation in Very Low Birth Weight Infants

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2007-01-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

To examine if early iron supplementation (starting oral iron at 14 days of life) would improve the nutritional iron status(measured by serum ferritin) of very low birth weight infants at postnatal age of 60 days, when compared to the standard regime of starting iron at 2 months of life.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
• Collaborator: Indian Council of Medical Research
• Treatments: Iron

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Infants who have reached at least 100 ml/kg/day of oral feeds by day 14 of life

Exclusion Criteria:

• Major congenital anomalies

• Rh hemolytic disease

• Twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome

• Refusal to give consent