Trial | NCT01791608  Report issue

Title

Zinc Sulphate vs. Zinc Amino Acid Chelate
Effect of Zinc Sulphate and Zinc Amino Acid Chelate in Prevention Acute Diarrhea and Acute Respiratory Infection, Medellín 2012

  • Phase

    Phase 4

  • Study Type

    Interventional

  • Status

    Completed No Results Posted

  • Intervention/Treatment

    zinc dichloride amino acids ...

  • Study Participants

    360
Acute respiratory infection and acute diarrhea are among the most prevalent diseases of childhood increase the burden of morbidity and mortality in children under 5 years.

Among the possible strategies for its prevention is important to count on good nutritional status for use in developing a good immune response to infections. Zinc deficiency has been shown to favor the development of infections and has been considered a real public health problem.

Within the zinc compounds used are zinc amino acid chelate and zinc sulphate, the first that has shown evidence of being better absorbed and tolerated.

We propose a study showing the effectiveness of zinc amino acid chelate and zinc sulphate in the prevention of acute diarrheal disease and acute respiratory infection.
Study Started
Mar 31
2012
Primary Completion
Jul 31
2012
Study Completion
Nov 30
2012
Last Update
Feb 15
2013
Estimate

Dietary Supplement Zinc sulfate as dietary supplementation

Zinc sulfate as dietary supplementation

Dietary Supplement Zinc amino acid chelate as dietary supplementation

Zinc amino acid chelate as dietary supplementation

Dietary Supplement Milk without fortification without zinc

Milk without fortification

  • Other names: Milk without zinc

Zinc sulphate Active Comparator

Preschool children healthy enrolled in FAN Foundation of Medellin, which will be supplied with zinc sulphate

Zinc Amino Acid Chelate Experimental

Preschool children healthy enrolled in FAN Foundation of Medellin , which will be supplied with zinc amino acid chelate

Milk without fortification Placebo Comparator

Milk without zinc

Criteria 

Inclusion Criteria:

Children who

Belong to institute FAN in Medellín
Attend full time to institute FAN (eight hours)
Have 2 to 5 years

Exclusion Criteria:

Children who

Children at the began of the study are with acute diarrheal disease and acute respiratory infection.
Recurrent pneumonia, cystic fibrosis, gastrointestinal malformations, persistent diarrhea of any cause, inflammatory bowel disease.
Failure to attend the educational institution for more than 10 days
No consumption of zinc supplementation for more than 10 days, because of insistence to the school
No Results Posted