An interventional study of Arla Yoghurt with no probiotic and Probiotic yoghurt (Cultura) in Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Relief of Irritable Bowel Syndrome Symptoms and Quality of Life, sponsored by Good Food Practice, Sweden. Completed at 1 site in Sweden. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 70 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2010-05-24.
Sponsored by Good Food Practice, Sweden · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
To determine the effect of cultura probiotic yoghurt on number of responders to treatment during 8 weeks of treatment in comparison to placebo. To determine the effect of cultura yoghurt on change in total score of (IBS) irritable bowel syndrome severity index during 8 weeks of treatment in comparison to placebo in IBS out patients.
Recent research has shown taht probiotic may give positive effect on symptoms among patients with (IBS) Irritable Bowel Syndrome. The mechanism behind the positive effect are not known but a positive effect on different cytokines are a possible mechanism. Also effect on the large intestine bacterial mass could be of importance.
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This study's enrollment of 80 is above the median of 71 across 853 interventional studies indexed under Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
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Signed consent to participate age 18-70 years IBS according to Rome II criteria
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Exclusion Criteria:
Cultura yoghurt containing: L bulgaricus, S thermophilus
Other: Probiotic yoghurt (Cultura)
Other: Arla Yoghurt with no probiotic
two servings of 200 ml of investigational products per day
200 ml per day
Relief of IBS symptoms
The primary endpoint of this study was the proportions of patients reporting adequate relief of their IBS symptoms at least 50 % of the weeks during the treatment period
Time frame: 6 weeks intervention and 6 weeks follow up
Effects on gastrointestinal and extraintestinal symptoms
effects of the investigational products on GI and extraintestinal symptoms assessed with the weekly IBS SSI questionnaire and the scores from the daily questions of the GI symptom questionnaire as weel as the effect on psychological symptoms and quality of life.
Time frame: September 2005 to May 2006
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