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In addition to Coca-Cola, meat tenderizer has been used to dissolve bezoars of the stomach. [10] [11] When treatment with Coca-Cola is combined with endoscopic methods, the success of treatment approaches 90%. [6] The mechanism by which Coca-Cola dissolves the bezoar is based upon its low pH, CO 2 bubbles, and sodium bicarbonate content. [9]
[3] [7] A systematic review regarding initial treatment of phytobezoars with Coca-Cola found that Coca-Cola alone completely dissolved phytobezoars in half of cases, and that Coca-Cola combined with other endoscopic methods (particularly endoscopic fragmentation) was successful more than 90% of the time. [7]
Clinicians administered the cola in doses of 500 ml (18 imp fl oz; 17 US fl oz) to up to 3,000 ml (110 imp fl oz; 100 US fl oz) over 24 hours, orally or by gastric lavage. A total of 91.3% of patients had complete resolution after treatment with Coca-Cola: 50% after a single treatment, with others requiring cola plus endoscopic removal.
Tab (stylized as TaB) was a diet cola soft drink produced and distributed by The Coca-Cola Company, introduced in 1963 and discontinued in 2020.The company's first diet drink, [1] Tab was popular among some people throughout the 1960s and 1970s as an alternative to Coca-Cola.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest today called on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ban the use of certain caramel coloring in foods and sodas including Coca-Cola and Pepsi ...
Depending on the level of obstruction, bowel obstruction can present with abdominal pain, abdominal distension, and constipation.Bowel obstruction may be complicated by dehydration and electrolyte abnormalities due to vomiting; respiratory compromise from pressure on the diaphragm by a distended abdomen, or aspiration of vomitus; bowel ischemia or perforation from prolonged distension or ...
A young woman has received a “second chance at life” after undergoing the UK’s first ever liver transplant for advanced bowel cancer.. Bianca Perea refused to accept that prolonging her life ...
– Bowel cancer campaigner helps raise awareness and millions for condition Dame Deborah James fought tirelessly to raise awareness for bowel cancer – a condition she died from in June 28, at ...