Actively Recruiting

Phase Not Applicable
Age: 3Weeks - 8Weeks
All Genders
NCT05512234

Effect of Probiotic Limosilactobacillus Reuteri (L. Reuteri) on Crying Time in Infants With Colic

Led by BioGaia AB · Updated on 2025-09-22

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Participants Needed

2

Research Sites

172 weeks

Total Duration

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Sponsors

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BioGaia AB

Lead Sponsor

A

Atlantia Food Clinical Trials

Collaborating Sponsor

AI-Summary

What this Trial Is About

This is a double-blind, multi-center, randomized, placebo-controlled, parallel-group study in infants with colic with the primary objective to evaluate crying time.

CONDITIONS

Official Title

Effect of Probiotic Limosilactobacillus Reuteri (L. Reuteri) on Crying Time in Infants With Colic

Who Can Participate

Age: 3Weeks - 8Weeks
All Genders

Eligibility Criteria

Eligible

You may qualify if you...

  • Aged between 3-8 weeks at screening.
  • Gestational age 37+0 weeks to 42+0 weeks at birth.
  • Birth weight appropriate for gestational age (AGA) or large for gestational age (LGA) based on WHO weight-for-age percentiles.
  • Parents or caregivers are over 18 years old.
  • Exclusively or predominantly breastfed infants (more than 50% breastfed).
  • Willingness to maintain current feeding patterns.
  • Parents or caregivers ready and able to complete study diaries and questionnaires.
  • Infantile colic diagnosed by Rome IV criteria with at least one 24-hour period showing 3 or more hours of crying/fussing.
  • Parents or caregivers able to understand and comply with study requirements.
  • Parents or caregivers willing and able to give informed consent.
  • Mother willing to attend scheduled visits on Day 0, Day 8, and Day 22.
  • Infant considered healthy by investigator after physical exam.
Not Eligible

You will not qualify if you...

  • Infants with severe gastroesophageal reflux (vomiting more than a teaspoon of milk over 8 times daily, projectile, bilious, or bloody vomiting).
  • Infants with failure to thrive, intrauterine growth retardation, blood in stools, diarrhea (more than 12 watery stools daily if breastfed, more than 5 if partially breastfed), or fever (38.0 degrees Celsius).
  • Infants with congenital heart disease, immunodeficiency, asplenia, cancer, cystic fibrosis, or liver disease.
  • Infants exposed to probiotics in the 7 days before screening or during the study.
  • Infants exposed to oral or systemic antibiotics in the 7 days before screening or during the study.
  • Infants using medications or therapies for colic relief, including proton pump inhibitors, in the 7 days before screening or during the study.

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Trial Site Locations

Total: 2 locations

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Atlantia Clinical Trials

Cork, Ireland

Actively Recruiting

2

Clinical Trail Consultants AB

Uppsala, Sweden

Actively Recruiting

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Research Team

C

Caroline Linninge, PhD

CONTACT

How is the study designed?

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Masking

QUADRUPLE

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Model

PARALLEL

Primary Purpose

TREATMENT

Number of Arms

2

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