ABSTRACT
This study determines whether the oral application of a baking soda-3% hydrogen peroxide dentifrice and a nearly saturated sodium chloride mouthwash, as a home care method for treating periodontal disease, creates a sodium burden for human subjects. The dietary intake and urinary excretion of sodium and potassium were monitored in participating subjects. Urinary sodium did not increase in subjects using the method. Desquamative gingival lesions, however, were seen in all treated subjects. Further study is needed to determine safe salt concentrations for this home care regimen.
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Bicarbonates/pharmacology , Hydrogen Peroxide/pharmacology , Mouth Mucosa/drug effects , Sodium Chloride/pharmacology , Sodium/metabolism , Sodium/pharmacology , Adult , Female , Food Analysis , Gingiva/drug effects , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Periodontal Index , Sodium/blood , Sodium/urine , Sodium Bicarbonate , Time FactorsABSTRACT
The nutrients in 5-day diet diaries of 100 patients from an Iowa private dental office were analyzed with the assistance of a computer program and were compared to the RDA. The mean energy intakes of both men and women were lower than that suggested by the RDA's. The percent of kilocalories of fat was as high as the national average. Calcium was below 100% of RDA for both younger and older men and women with 43% of the women and 25% of the men below two-thirds of RDA. Protein and ascorbic acid levels were high. None of the diets were low in protein. The ascorbic acid intake was especially high, older men eating an average of 248% and older women 265% of RDA. Nutrient analysis of diets is more definitive than the commonly used food group plan for the dentist to meet the needs of nutrition counseling for an increasingly nutrition-conscious patient population.
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Diet , Nutritional Physiological Phenomena , Periodontal Diseases , Adult , Calcium, Dietary , Dietary Fats , Dietary Proteins , Energy Intake , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , VitaminsSubject(s)
Aging , Dentures , Mouth Mucosa/physiopathology , Candidiasis, Oral , Climacteric , Deficiency Diseases/complications , Epithelium/physiopathology , Gingiva/physiopathology , Humans , Interprofessional Relations , Jaw Diseases , Keratins/metabolism , Masticatory Muscles/physiopathology , Nutritional Physiological Phenomena , Osteopetrosis , Periodontium/physiopathology , Salivation , TasteSubject(s)
Diet , Fatty Acids/blood , Liver/metabolism , Lung/metabolism , Age Factors , Animals , Body Weight , Chromatography, Gas , Dietary Fats/pharmacology , Eating , Fatty Acids/analysis , Female , Food , Liver/analysis , Lung/analysis , Male , Rats , Sex FactorsABSTRACT
1. Eight young healthy persons, four men and four women, were maintained for a total of 2 months on a diet in which 40%, 16% and 44% of the total calories were present as fats, proteins and carbohydrates respectively. The ratio of complex to simple carbohydrates in the diet was 1:4. 2. The fatty acids of serum kephalins, lecithins, lysolecithins and sphingomyelins were determined by gas-liquid column chromatography. 3. Lysolecithins in both men and women had the highest content of saturated acids, followed by sphingomyelins, lecithins and kephalins in that order. The degrees of saturation and of polyunsaturation of the fatty acids in the different phospholipid fractions were significantly different, except for the differences in the polyunsaturation of the kephalins and lecithins. 4. No sex difference was found in the fatty acid composition of the different phospholipids.