Indeed Carbonated beverages such as Coca-Cola could cause tooth decay and fill in the body with sugar and calories. However, research shows that drink is actually a safe and efficacious drug to cure a blockage in the stomach. Elements corrosive that erode tooth enamel, it was also effective dissolves food ingredients that can not be digested and accumulate in the stomach.
Researchers from the University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece, studied 24 papers covering 46 cases of gastric patients phytobezoar, the hard lump that forms part of the fruit and vegetables that can not be digested, such as cellulose. Piles of leftover food called bezoars tend to formed in people who have problems with the gastrointestinal tract, either because of previous gastric surgery or other conditions.
Half of the patients were using Coca-Cola to restore their digestive stomach. Soft drinks that break down clots that clog the stomach. The combination of drink and endoscopic techniques proven to cure 19 patients. Only in four cases are patients who have surgery to lift the bezoar. Scientists say it means, Coca-Cola has a 91.3 percent success rate.
Researchers do not know exactly how soft drinks can destroy bezoar, but chances are it has something to do with the high levels of acidity drinks. Because the carbonic acid content and acid phosphate, Coca-Cola has a pH of 2.6, resembling the natural gastric origin are important to digest fiber. Sodium bicarbonate and carbon dioxide bubbles in the drink also enhance the effects of decomposition bezoar.
"Coca-Cola can be used to treat blockages CHOICES because it reduces gastric endoscopy, and the patient does not need to be treated in hospital for too long," said the researchers in a paper published in the journal Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, last month. *** [LIVESCIENCE | TJANDRA | KORAN TEMPO 4110]
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