Compliance is the biggest challenge in patients with Short Bowel Syndrome (SBS) on Home Parenteral Nutrition. These patients need to hydrate themselves to meet the excess fluid loss due to their anatomy. Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS) is prescribed to all these patients. The investigators believe that taste of the standard ORS is the biggest reason why these patients are not complaint. The new ORS in the market has been prepared with this in mind. The investigators want to study if this new ORS will improve the compliance in this patient cohort.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Enrollment
28
Participants will be randomized into one of the two groups. They will be provided with one of the two ORS solutions. Then, they will be followed for 6 months.
Participants will be instructed to dilute contents of the provided ORS to a 1 liter bottle and sip all day.
Mayo Clinic in Rochester
Rochester, Minnesota, United States
Number of patients who will regularly take Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS) when the newly available ORS is compared to the World Health Organisation ORS.
Time frame: 6 months
Changes in the electrolytes in subjects using the commercial ORS versus the WHO ORS
Time frame: Baseline to 6 months
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