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The Effect of Chewing Gum on Small Bowel Transit Time

NCT01241825 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 122

Last updated 2014-09-30

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to see if chewing sugarless chewing gum alters the time it takes for a capsule endoscopy to travel through the stomach and small bowel, and to see if more/less capsule endoscopes reach the large bowel.

Conditions

  • Bowel Transit Times

Interventions

OTHER

Trident sugarless chewing gum.

Patients will be randomly divided into 2 groups, one subject group (these chew gum) and one control group (these do not chew gum). The subjects will have to chew Trident sugarless chewing gum for 20-30 minutes every 2 hours, all together 4 times at t=0 h, t=2, t=4 and t=6 h.

OTHER

One control group (these do not chew gum).

The control group will not chew chewing gum while undergoing capsule endoscopy

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of British Columbia

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Robert A. Enns, Dr. · University of British Columbia

  • Eric Lam, Dr. · University of British Columbia

  • Jennifer Telford, Dr. · University of British Columbia

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
19 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-09-30
Primary Completion
2012-07-31
Completion
2013-07-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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