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NCT ID: NCT01557673 Completed - Diarrhoea Clinical Trials

Effects of Bolus and Continuous Nasogastric Feeding on Small Bowel Water Content and Blood Flow

Start date: January 2012
Phase: Phase 1/Phase 2
Study type: Interventional

Following surgery some patients are unable to swallow. For those requiring nutritional support a tube is sometimes passed through the nose into the stomach to provide feeding. Traditionally this type of feeding is given slowly over the course of the day. However, it is thought that this mode of feeding might increase the amount of fluid entering the bowel contributing to symptoms of diarrhoea. An alternative strategy of feeding, given in larger volumes in a shorter space of time resembles normal feeding patterns and may reduce the amount of water entering the bowel. In this study we want to use a non invasive medical imaging technique called "magnetic resonance imaging" (or MRI) to look at the volume of bowel water following these two feeding strategies in 12 healthy volunteers. Each volunteer will have a tube inserted into the stomach via the nose and undergo the two feeding strategies at least 7 days apart. We will take repeated images using the MRI scanner to assess the bowel response and some samples of blood are required for analysis of blood sugar.