The research group started its first regular meetings in the New Year 2021, and is the newest research group at the pediatric clinic. We research common issues in the clinic such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), celiac disease, eating disorders in young children, nutrition in intestinal failure/serious illness and gastrostomy.

OUS has a regional function for children/adolescents with intestinal failure and short bowel syndrome. This is a fairly small group of patients, but with significant morbidity and risk of nutritional deficiency. Nutritional outcomes in this group have been mapped. An intervention with prebiotics has been carried out in a randomized study where data collection was completed in 2023. The purpose is to study whether such supplements can improve quality of life and gastrointestinal symptoms, affect intestinal flora and reduce the occurrence of bacterial overgrowth in the small intestine. The study is part of a PhD thesis (Rut Anne Thomassen, supervisors Anne Charlotte Brun/Christine Henriksen). The first article in this work has now been published, the second has been submitted and the last is in the analysis phase.