Conditions: Constipation
Keywords: Human Experimentation
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 203
Healthy volunteers: yes

Brief summary:
Randomized, placebo-controlled, double blind study. 203 subjects entered the study to compare the effect on occasional constipation of polyethylene glycol 3350 to placebo. Subjects took one of study treatments up to 7 days.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: MiraLAX® (polyethylene glycol 3350 powder for solution) arm 2: MALTRIN 500® M500 (maltodextrin 500)

Interventions: intervention 1: Polyethylene glycol 3350 intervention 2: Placebo, maltodextrin 500 powder for solution
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Polyethylene glycol 3350 powder for solution. Single dose (17 grams in 4 to 8 ounces of beverage) for 7 days. intervention 2: Maltodextrin 500 powder for solution, One single dose (one capful) in any 4 - 8 ounces beverage for 7 days.

Protocol document: