New blended tube feed study aims to improve gut comfort for patients
NCT ID NCT07341464
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looks at how well people tolerate a new blended tube feed over 28 days. It includes up to 50 children and adults who need tube feeding due to conditions like cerebral palsy or cancer. Researchers will track gut symptoms and how much of the formula is taken each day.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 50 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Dec 2025
- Expected to finish
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Nov 2026
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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A company
The lead sponsor is a pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical-device company.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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1 year and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Patients from 1 -15 years for children and 15 years and above for adults of requiring 1 or more bolus tube feed alongside their usual tube feed or home-made blended diet as part of their dietary management for disease related malnutrition. * Patients well-established and stable on current enteral tube feed or home-made blended diet. * Gastrostomy fed only. * Willingly given, written, informed consent from patient/caregiver Exclusion Criteria: * Inability to comply with the study protocol, in the opinion of the investigator. * Under 1 years of age * Patients who have a nasogastric and jejunal feeding tubes * Patients on total parenteral nutrition * Known food allergies to any ingredients listed in appendix 1. * Patients with significant renal or hepatic impairment * Participation in another interventional study within 2 weeks of this study. * Patients with known or suspected ileus or mechanical bowel obstruction
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Conditions
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How to take part
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The places running it
2 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Dietetic Team 1st floor Kings Court 1, Charles Hastings Way,
RECRUITINGWorcester, WR5 1JR, United Kingdom
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Queen Medical Hospital Nutrition and Dietetics
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGNottingham, NG7 2UH, United Kingdom
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