Composition and Collection Feasibility of Gut Microbiota in Children With and Without Obesity

Exclusion Criteria

• •1. patient who have received either oral or parenteral antibiotics in the last 3 months
• •2. patients who have a diagnosed immunodeficiency
• •3. patients who are on medications that modulate the immune system including systemic prednisone and biologics
• •4. patients who have a gastrointestinal condition which is known to alter the gut flora such as inflammatory bowel disease, chronic diarrhea, celiac disease and eosinophilic gastroenteritis diseases
• •5. patients who have taken proton pump inhibitors in the last 3 months
• •6. patients who have taken probiotics in the last 6 months.