Nutritional Management of Infants With Chronic Diarrhea

Nutritional Management of Infants With Chronic Diarrhea

The study objective is to assess the growth of infants fed an experimental formula for the nutritional management of chronic diarrhea.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Less than or equal to 12 months of age at enrollment
• Candidates for elemental feeding
• Chronic diarrhea and diagnosis of one of the following conditions: short-bowel syndrome, eosinophilic gastroenteritis, food allergy, inflammatory bowel disease, pancreatic disease, protein maldigestion, HIV-advanced disease or other GI disease requiring an elemental diet or have underlying GI disease without chronic diarrhea if his/her chronic diarrhea is controlled or is in remission by a semi-elemental or elemental formula for no more than 13 weeks
• Parents agree to feed infant with experimental formula for least 50% of total calories during study period

Exclusion Criteria:

• Any non-approved concomitant study