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....

Background: Hemodialysis is a method for extracorporal removing waste products such as creatinine and urea, as well as free water from the blood when the kidneys are in renal failure. Xerostomia is a frustrating symptom for patients on hemodialysis; mechanisms that contribute to its development include low saliva flow. An increased intake of fluids secondary to xerostomia in patients on hemodia...

Streptococcus mutans is strongly associated with caries in humans1 and its level in the mouth can be a good indicator of caries-risk. However, caries is a multifactorial disease and the presence of high levels of Streptococcus mutans at a particular site does not imply that such a site will inevitably develop a lesion. In addition, Streptococcus mutans is not found alone in association with car...

the current study is an attempt to contribute for efficient and cost-effective substrates for xanthan gum production. in this context, the sugar cane molasses wastes can be used as a cheap substrate for xanthan gum production. xanthan biopolymer production by a novel xanthomonas campestris strain ibrc-m 10644 was optimized with statistical approaches. based on the results of response surface me...

Daily use of probiotic chewing gum might have a beneficial effect on oral health, and it is important that the viability of the probiotics be maintained in this food product. In this study, we examined the stability of probiotic chewing gum containing Weissella cibaria. We evaluated the effects of various factors, including temperature and additives, on the survival of freeze-dried probiotic W....

introduction: cakes are usually formulated including wheat flour, sugar, egg and some liquids such as milk, water and oil. the textural properties of gluten in dough such as tensile, expansion and tolerance capability during mixing are major factors in baking industry. in fact, the structural protein to produce bread, cakes, muffins and biscuits is called gluten and the absence of gluten due to...

Diabetes is a common metabolic disease in the world that has many adverse effects. Olibanum gum resin (from trees of the genus Boswellia) has traditionally been used in the treatment of various diseases such as diabetes. The aim of this study was the comparison of Olibanum gum resin effect with placebo on the treatment of type 2 diabetes. Inclusion criteria was diabetic patients with fasting bl...