Pneumonia or better known in Indonesia is a disease of lower respiratory tract infection that attacks the lungs.
Pneumonia is usually treated with antibiotics. But it turns out there are other alternatives besides antibiotics to treat it is with virgin coconut oil (VCO). Recent research has found that the VCO is added to the antibiotics can reduce symptoms of pneumonia in children. In fact, the effect is faster than just giving antibiotics.
Giving VCO and antibiotics simultaneously will more quickly reduce the tightness in the lungs of children. The study also revealed the VCO can make the flow of oxygen in the blood becomes more smoothly. The study by Dr. Gilda Saphire Erguiza , a pediatric pulmonologist from the Philippine Children's Medical Center. And, the fact is expressed in a meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians in Philadelphia, United States.
The study was followed by 40 children ranging in age between 3-5 years. The children who develop pneumonia as those in the 2 groups. The first group was treated with antibiotics only give amphicillin to reduce the symptoms of pneumonia. The second group was given antibiotics and VCO by 2 millimeters from each kilogram of their weight.
The result is the VCO and the group given antibiotics, for three consecutive days, shortness of breath was reduced compared with children who were given antibiotics. "Children who consume VCO has a fever of more briefly, and more rapidly absorb oxygen," said Erguiza.
(Viva)
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