A Study Evaluating a Proprietary Amino Acid Mixture (Enterade®) in Patients Receiving High-Dose Melphalan Conditioning Followed by Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation for Multiple Myeloma and Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

Exclusion Criteria

• •Participants who have had radiotherapy within 4 weeks prior to entering the study or those who have not recovered from adverse events due to chemotherapy agents administered during this time period.
• •Participants who are receiving any other investigational agents. Participants who are receiving standard of care induction therapy on a clinical trial may be eligible after discussion with the overall principal investigator.
• •Participants with known brain metastases should be excluded from this clinical trial because of their poor prognosis and because they often develop progressive neurologic dysfunction that would confound the evaluation of neurologic and other adverse events.
• •Known allergy to Stevia.
• •Participants receiving any medications or antibiotics to treat Clostridium difficile infection prior to the initiation of the study will be ineligible for this study.
• •Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active Clostridium difficile infection or history of Clostridium difficile infection.
• •Participants with evidence of diarrhea as defined by three or more loose or liquid stools per day or loose watery stool (greater volume of stool), that occurs more frequently than usual and lasting for more than three days prior to admission, history of inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome, colectomy or bariatric surgery, Celiac disease.
• •Participants with psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements.
• •Pregnant and nursing women are excluded from this study because of teratogenicity and toxicity risks associated with the conditioning regimen for patients undergoing autologous HSCT.