View clinical trials related to Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
Filter by:Randomised controlled trial comparing standard outpatient clinic treatment with multi-disciplinary clinic treatment for functional gastrointestinal disorders. Patients will be followed up to end of clinic treatment and 12 months beyond the end of treatment. Symptoms, quality of life, costs to the healthcare system and psychological outcomes will be assessed.
Constipation is a common gastrointestinal motility disorder that is often chronic, negatively affects patients' daily lives. Constipation occurs when bowel movements become difficult or less frequent.This study is being done to study the effectiveness of the hydrogel capsule, CSP01, compared to the active control (carboxymethylcellulose) and placebo (non-medicine sugar pill), to relieve constipation among subjects with chronic idiopathic constipation (CIC) or with irritable bowel syndrome with constipation (IBS-C).
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is the most common gastrointestinal disease, affecting 12% of the US population and up to 20% of the population worldwide. This is a condition that is diagnosed based on specific symptoms of altered bowel habits and abdominal pain, as well as the exclusion of select other GI diseases. IBS not only causes constipation, diarrhea, abdominal cramping, and bloating, it also significantly affects quality of life, overall functioning, and work productivity. The cause of IBS is likely multifactorial, which makes it a difficult disease to treat. However, patients often associate their IBS symptoms with eating a meal. Up to 90% of IBS patients restrict their diet to prevent or improve their symptoms, and patients are increasingly interested in more holistic approaches to disease management. At present, the most persuasive evidence that dietary changes can treat IBS supports a diet low in fermentable carbohydrates (the low FODMAP (fermentable oligo, di, and monosaccharides and polyols) diet). This diet, which is low in certain carbohydrates, has been shown to improve IBS symptoms (particularly abdominal pain and bloating), but can be difficult to follow and quite restrictive. In addition, this diet is not meant to be used as a maintenance diet; patients undergo an elimination phase followed by a reintroduction phase of specific carbohydrate groups as they monitor their symptoms. From the results of our proposed study, the study team hopes to arrive at a modified, less -restrictive version of the low FODMAP diet that is equally effective, and also create a standard protocol that patients can use during this reintroduction phase. Patients with IBS will be recruited into a 13-week trial that would help determine the optimal way in which high FODMAP foods should be introduced. After consent, patients would start on a low FODMAP diet for 14 days, and if their symptoms improve, they would be invited to continue in the study. For 7 days prior to the reintroduction of individual FODMAPs, patients will ingest 1daily servings of a low FODMAP nutrition drink to validate the low FODMAP content of this dietary supplement. If patients do not experience a flare of symptoms with the supplement, they enter the reintroduction period. During this period, subjects would introduce different groups of FODMAPs in a blinded fashion while remaining on an otherwise low FODMAP diet while monitoring their IBS symptoms. At the end of the study period, subjects would be informed of the FODMAPs to which they were sensitive and would meet with a dietitian. At the completion of the study, the investigators would compile the data and determine which FODMAPs were mostly likely to exacerbate IBS symptoms, thus providing the construct for a modified low FODMAP diet, or "low FODMAP-Light." It is hoped that this modified, less restrictive version of the low FODMAP diet would be equally effective for the majority of IBS patients.
Study Aims: To analyze stool specimens to test and validate the CalproLab assay against the predicate PhiCal in order to determine performance characteristics. And to correlate Calpro levels to the gut microbiome composition.
The project is a randomized, 2-way, blinded parallel trial in which 56 healthy adults of both genders with frequent occurrence of stomach trouble.This intervention trial with 6 weeks of daily intake β-glucans will be carried out with a beverage containing β-glucans and a control beverage without β-glucans. The primary aim is to investigate whether β-glucans from barley has an effect on stomach and intestinal health, including stool volume and frequency. Microbiota, concentrations of short chain fatty acids (butyrate, propionate, acetate), calprotectin, and energy and fat content in feces. Furthermore, blood pressure and exhaled hydrogen and methane, before and after the intervention, subjective perception of gastrointestinal problems and digestion as well as the participants' attitudes towards functional foods are measured using Visual Analog Scale (VAS). Further, specific metabolites of β-glucans in urine (exploratory endpoint) and certain toxic metabolites from the microbiota using metabolite profiling (metabolomics) are also analyzed
This pilot study proposes to gain a better understanding of the health benefits of the popular "paleo-diet" in patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and explore underlying mechanisms of benefit.
Recently it has been reported that a consistent percentage of the general population consider themselves to be suffering from problems caused by wheat and/or gluten ingestion, even though they do not have CD or wheat allergy. This clinical condition has been named Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity' (NCGS). In a previous paper the investigators suggested the term 'Non-Celiac Wheat Sensitivity' (NCWS), since it is not known what component of wheat causes the symptoms in NCGS patients, and the investigators also showed that these patients had a high frequency of coexistent multiple food hypersensitivity. Nowadays only few data are available on the histological characteristic of duodenal and rectal biopsies of NCWS patients. The researchers have just demonstrated a significant eosinophils infiltration of the duodenal and colon mucosa, and a significant infiltration of CD45+/CD3-CD14- cells in the rectal mucosa of NCWS patients upon wheat challenge, thus configuring a diffuse gastrointestinal "inflammatory/immunologic" pattern. The aims of the present study are: 1) to investigate the histological characteristics in duodenal and rectal biopsies between NCWS and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) patients, and 2) to evaluate which site (i.e. duodenal or rectal) shows "inflammatory/allergic" features useful for NCWS histological diagnosis.
The main goal of this randomized controlled clinical study is to evaluate the efficacy of an individual Ayurvedic nutritional counseling (according to tradition) compared to an individual conventional dietary advice (according to the German Nutrition Society - DGE) in patients with irritable bowel syndrome. It is to be investigated whether nutritional therapy elements, which patients can self-implement independently in the home environment, can achieve sustainable therapy effects.
This study assessed the effect of a nutrition support product on quality of life in adults with compromised gut function and malabsorption.
Objective: To confirm the psychometrics properties of the Intestinal Gas Questionnaire (IGQ) in subjects with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) diagnosis and General population both complaining of Gas-Related Symptoms (GRS). IGQ has been developed previously simultaneously in UK English, French and Spanish through qualitative research with subject interviews. The conceptual framework of the IGQ assesses both GRS and their impact on daily life. Similar concepts were identified for both subjects with IBS diagnosis and general population and complaining of gas-related symptoms. The IGQ consists of a 24-hour recall symptom diary assessing 7 gas-related symptoms (17 items) and a 7-day recall questionnaire which assesses the impact of those symptoms (26 items)