Coca-Cola is successful new treatment for stomach blockages
Published
January 07, 2013
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Doctors are using Coca-Cola to treat
patients who have gastric phytobezoar – more commonly referred to as a stomach
blockage, The Daily Telegraph reported.
The treatment is now being favored over surgery, as it has a success rate of more than 90 percent, according to researchers from Athens University, which detailed their findings in the journal Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics.
Coca-Cola, along with the diet version and Coke Zero, have chemical ingredients that work the same way as gastric acid, and the carbonation helps move everything along.
A stomach blockage, often caused when some fruits do not digest, can ultimately lead to a bowel obstruction. Doctors can treat the ailment with lasers, endoscopies and surgery
According to the researchers, if drinking Coca-Cola does not fully destroy the mechanism causing the blockage, it will at least make it smaller, thus making it easier to remove through typical procedures.
Click for more from the Daily Telegraph.
The treatment is now being favored over surgery, as it has a success rate of more than 90 percent, according to researchers from Athens University, which detailed their findings in the journal Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics.
Coca-Cola, along with the diet version and Coke Zero, have chemical ingredients that work the same way as gastric acid, and the carbonation helps move everything along.
A stomach blockage, often caused when some fruits do not digest, can ultimately lead to a bowel obstruction. Doctors can treat the ailment with lasers, endoscopies and surgery
According to the researchers, if drinking Coca-Cola does not fully destroy the mechanism causing the blockage, it will at least make it smaller, thus making it easier to remove through typical procedures.
Click for more from the Daily Telegraph.
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3 comments:
Hydrochloric Acid can do the same thing as Coke and not prolong your certain death from drinking Coke!
I believe you more Anon 12:17. It sounds more plausible than this crock!
Leave it to FIX and Coca cola to promote this crap as a medical fix. And for them to suggest it is because of some fruit. I find it amazing when the western corporations can still make me laugh with their games.
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