Probiotic Administartion to Mothers of Preterm Infants to Prevent Necrotizing Enterocolitis and Sepsis

Terminated 57 enrolled Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

RandomizedParallel-groupQuadruple-blindPrevention

Summary

We hypothesize that supplementing maternal diet with probiotics will decrease the incidence of feeding intolerance, necrotizing enterocolitis and sepsis in preterm infants fed breastmilk.

Timeline

Start: 2007-06
Primary completion: 2009-07
Completion: 2009-07

Publications

Benor S, Marom R, Ben Tov A, Armoni Domany K, Zaidenberg-Israeli G, Dollberg S. Probiotic supplementation in mothers of very low birth weight infants. Am J Perinatol. 2014 Jun;31(6):497-504. doi: 10.1055/s-0033-1353490. Epub 2013 Aug 9.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Subject	Bifidobacteria lactis	Other / unclassified	—	Oral
Subject	Lactobacillus acidophilus	Other / unclassified	—	Oral

Probiotic Administartion to Mothers of Preterm Infants to Prevent Necrotizing Enterocolitis and Sepsis

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