The Effectiveness of Chewing Gum and Sucking Ice Cubes in Reducing Thirst in Chronic Kidney Failure Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis

Patients with end-stage kidney disease undergoing hemodialysis often experience Thirsty and reduce thirst in patients hemodialysis, among others, by chewing low-sugar gum sucking ice cubes. stone to decrease chronic renal failure hemodialysis. This type of research used a quasi-experimental design two-group pre-post design, total sample 34 people divided into two groups 17 the group cube group. The results study before felt thirsty were 14 (82,4%) 3 (17,6%) who very thirsty, while cubes, 16 (94,1%) 1 person (5,9%). Giving decreased as many those did not (17,6%), after showed much (94,1%), Mann-Whitney test that there was difference effectiveness low sugar cubes reducing where more effective than p-value 0,000. Sucking is compared gum. Can increase knowledge insight for dealing thirst.