green banana and Reduced Stool Volume

• Clinical studies in persistent diarrhea: dietary management with green banana or pectin in Bangladeshi children.

  • 2001-09
  • RCT · n = 22
  • Gastroenterology 121(3)
  • • G H Rabbani
    • T Teka
    • B Zaman
    • N Majid
    • M Khatun
    • G J Fuchs

  • PubMed: 11522739
  • DOI: 10.1053/gast.2001.27178

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  • Reduced Stool Volume

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  • Clinical

  Green banana and pectin significantly (P < 0.05) reduced amounts of stool, oral rehydration solution, intravenous fluid, and numbers of vomiting, and diarrheal duration.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  250 g/L

• Green banana and pectin improve small intestinal permeability and reduce fluid loss in Bangladeshi children with persistent diarrhea.

  • 2004-03
  • RCT · n = 21
  • Digestive diseases and sciences 49(3)
  • • G H Rabbani
    • Telahun Teka
    • Shyamal Kumar Saha
    • Badiuz Zaman
    • Naseha Majid
    • Makhduma Khatun
    • Mohammad A Wahed
    • George J Fuchs

  • PubMed: 15139502
  • DOI: 10.1023/b:ddas.0000020507.25910.cf

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  • Reduced Stool Volume

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  Permeability changes were associated with a 50% reduction in stool weights which correlated strongly (green banana, r2 = 0.84) with the LM ratio.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes