Trial reportBosnian journal of basic medical sciences2012
Chewing gums has stimulatory effects on bowel function in patients undergoing cesarean section: a randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in Bosnian journal of basic medical sciences, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 40 citations in OpenAlex.
- Chewing gum for intestinal function recovery after caesarean section: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2017Pooled it
- Chewing gum for enhancing early recovery of bowel function after caesarean section.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
- Chewing gum for postoperative recovery of gastrointestinal function.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
- The Effects of Gum Chewing in the Postoperative-Period: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.ANZ journal of surgeryPooled it
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- Oral Health and "Modern" Digestive Diseases: Pathophysiologic and Etiologic Factors.Biomedicines · 2024Review
- Impact of habitual chewing on gut motility via microbiota transition.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Perioperative fasting and feeding in adults, obstetric, paediatric and bariatric population: Practice Guidelines from the Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists.Indian journal of anaesthesia · 2020Article
- Evaluation of Preclinical and Clinical Studies Published in Medical Journals of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Methodology Issues.Acta informatica medica : AIM : journal of the Society for Medical Informatics of Bosnia & Herzegovina : casopis Drustva za medicinsku informatiku BiH · 2020Article
- Effectiveness of acupuncture for recovery of flatulence after cesarean section: A case report.Medicine · 2018Article
- Effect of chewing gum on the postoperative recovery of gastrointestinal function.International journal of clinical and experimental medicine · 2015Review
- Gum chewing and bowel function after Caesarean section under spinal anesthesia.Pakistan journal of medical sciencesArticle
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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
The aim of study was to investigate the effect of postoperative gum chewing on the recovery of bowel function after cesarean section. Total 100 women delivered by lower uterine segment section cesarean under local anesthesia (spinal). Eligible patients were randomly allocated into two groups: a gum-chewing group (n=50) or a control group (n= 50). The gum-chewing group participants who received one stick of sugarless gum for one hours, three times daily immediately after recovery from anesthesia and the control group had the usual postoperative care until being discharged. All women were followed up regularly until discharge from hospital, and recorded the times to the first bowel sounds of normal intestinal sounds, the time to the first passage of flatus, the time to the first feeling of hunger, and the time to the first defecation. The operative data, postoperative tolerance of gum chewing, and postoperative complications were documented. There was no statistically significant difference between the two groups in terms of demographic characteristics such as age, body mass index, parity, duration of surgery, number of miscarriages and curettages, time to the first feeding, the amount of serum intake, and type of cesarean section. The mean average postoperative interval of the first bowel sounds (21.9 versus 26.1 hours, p= 0.016), the first feeling of hunger (11.8 versus 14.5 hours, p= 0.050), the first passage of flatus (24.8 versus 30.0 hours, P=0.002), the first defecation (30.6 versus 38.4 hours, P= 0.0001) was significantly shorter compared to the control group.
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