Overview
Acceptability, compliance and palatability study.
Description
Acceptability (including gastrointestinal tolerance, compliance and palatability) of a paediatric oral nutritional supplement containing food blends.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients from 1-15 years requiring 1 or more oral nutritional supplement to replace current oral nutritional supplement as part of their dietary management for disease related malnutrition.
- Patients well-established and stable on current nutritional support regimen.
- Willingly given, written, informed consent from patient/caregiver.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Unsafe swallow
- Inability to comply with the study protocol, in the opinion of the investigator.
- Under 1 years of age
- Patients on total parenteral nutrition
- Known food allergies, including any allergies to the ingredients
- Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) stage 3b (G3b), stage 4 (G4), stage 5 (G5) or hepatic impairment.
- Participation in another interventional study within 2 weeks of this study.
- Patients with known or suspected ileus or mechanical bowel obstruction