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An Impact of Coconut Oil Pulling on Oral Mucositis among Malignancy Patients


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1 Operations and Nursing, Apollo CBCC Cancer Care, Apollo Hospitals International Ltd., Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad – 382428, Gujarat, India
2 Department of Surgery, SBKSMIRC, Vadodara – 391760, Gujarat, India
 

Acute or chronic oral complications may develop around 400,000 patients each year during chemotherapy. Oral mucositis happens in around 40% of patients who get malignancy chemotherapy1,2. Basically 75% of patients who get strong regimens develop oral mucositis. Treating oral mucositis with coconut oil has worked and battle all anti-viral, bacterial, and fungal properties3. The medium-chain unsaturated fats found in coconut oil which is immediately consumed into the body and thus the healing process is accelerated and it helps to enhance the body’s own immune system and hence assist it with battling all germs4. Coconut oil is a conventional treatment and is completely edible and natural5,6. It aims to evaluate the impact of coconut oil pulling on oral mucositis. A Quasi-experimental approach, convenient examining strategy, test size was 60 and the information was gathered through organized self-talk with questionnaires with standardized WHO Oral Mucositis Rating Scale. The Coconut oil pulling technique was administered to the experimental group. This group of people were administered with the coconut oil pulling technique and collected outcomes were analyzed statistically. The majority of samples had grade 3 rating in trial batch and in control batch larger part of them had grade 2 rating on severity of oral mucositis. The coconut oil pulling technique intervention was effective among cancer patients with oral mucositis of post-test results, the secured ‘t’ benefit was remarkable, p <0.05 extent. The association between oral mucositis with their demographic variables are found was significant (p <0.05). The technique tested was found to have significant


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Cancer Patients, Coconut Oil Pulling, Evaluation, Impact, Oral Mucositis
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Authors

C. Manjunathan
Operations and Nursing, Apollo CBCC Cancer Care, Apollo Hospitals International Ltd., Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad – 382428, Gujarat, India
Vijoykumar Singh
Department of Surgery, SBKSMIRC, Vadodara – 391760, Gujarat, India

Abstract


Acute or chronic oral complications may develop around 400,000 patients each year during chemotherapy. Oral mucositis happens in around 40% of patients who get malignancy chemotherapy1,2. Basically 75% of patients who get strong regimens develop oral mucositis. Treating oral mucositis with coconut oil has worked and battle all anti-viral, bacterial, and fungal properties3. The medium-chain unsaturated fats found in coconut oil which is immediately consumed into the body and thus the healing process is accelerated and it helps to enhance the body’s own immune system and hence assist it with battling all germs4. Coconut oil is a conventional treatment and is completely edible and natural5,6. It aims to evaluate the impact of coconut oil pulling on oral mucositis. A Quasi-experimental approach, convenient examining strategy, test size was 60 and the information was gathered through organized self-talk with questionnaires with standardized WHO Oral Mucositis Rating Scale. The Coconut oil pulling technique was administered to the experimental group. This group of people were administered with the coconut oil pulling technique and collected outcomes were analyzed statistically. The majority of samples had grade 3 rating in trial batch and in control batch larger part of them had grade 2 rating on severity of oral mucositis. The coconut oil pulling technique intervention was effective among cancer patients with oral mucositis of post-test results, the secured ‘t’ benefit was remarkable, p <0.05 extent. The association between oral mucositis with their demographic variables are found was significant (p <0.05). The technique tested was found to have significant


Keywords


Cancer Patients, Coconut Oil Pulling, Evaluation, Impact, Oral Mucositis

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18311/jnr%2F2022%2F27993