Effect of cucumber on fasting caused chapped lips and and oral ulcer after operation

VernacularTitle:黄瓜预防术后禁食患者口唇干裂及口腔溃疡的效果
Author: Cuixia ZHENG ¹ ; Lili WAN ; Jing ZHANG ; Li LIU ; Aiping CEN
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1. 210002 南京，解放军第八一医院综合外科
Keywords: Fasting; Chapped lips; Oral cavity ulcer; Cucumber
From: Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing 2015;21(2):228-229
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To observe the clinical efficacy of cucumber on preventing chapped lips and oral cavity ulcer caused by fasting after surgery.Methods A total of 124 fasting patients were randomly divided into experimental group and control group on average.The control group during the period of fasting were painted lips or gargled with warm boiling water or mineral syrup while the experimental group during the period of fasting were laid with cucumber slices or gargled cucumber juice.The incidence of chapped lips and oral cavity ulcer during the fasting period in two groups had been compared.Results The incidence rate of chapped lips and oral cavity ulcer in the experimental group was 4.84%, which was lower than that in the control group(43.55%) with statistical significance (χ2 =90.26,P<0.01).The degree of chapped lips and oral cavity ulcer in the experimental group was lower than that in the control group as well.Conclusions Utilization of cucumber for fasting patients is effective to prevent chapped lips and oral cavity ulcer.