Study Status: RECRUITING
Recruit Status: RECRUITING
Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
Official Title: Establishing a Pediatric Reference Range for the 13C-Spirulina Gastric Emptying Breath Test (GEBT)
Brief Summary:
The goal of this clinical trial is to define the normal response to the 13C-Spirulina Gastric Emptying Breath Test (GEBT) in children, so that we can use this test to help diagnose children that are suspected of having a condition called gastroparesis, which means that food doesn't empty from their stomach normally.
Participants will blow into test tubes to collect breath samples before and after eating a scrambled egg GEBT meal that contains a small amount of specially grown Spirulina (a blue-green alga used as a dietary supplement) that contains mostly carbon-13 (a non-radioactive kind of carbon atom).
Analysis of the amount of 13C in the carbon dioxide in breath before and after eating the GEBT meal can measure how fast food is emptying from the stomach.