Effectiveness of contextual education for self-management in Thai Muslims with type 2 diabetes mellitus during Ramadan.

Background: Fasting in Ramadan has adverse effects on health of Muslims with diabetes. Key strategies to prepare the patients are to provide appropriate health education to the patients prior to Ramadan and to adjust anti-diabetic medicines during Ramadan.

Objective: To study outcomes of the specific health care services that providing health education in parallel with counseling by Islamic leader

Material And Method: The Thai Muslims with type 2 diabetes mellitus were divided into two groups.

Comparison of essential trace elements in blood of patients receiving Ramathibodi Standard Parenteral Nutrition with Ramatrace or a commercial formular.

Objective: Commercially intravenous trace element product is very expensive compared to Ramatrace. Therefore, the present research was designed to compare the levels of zinc, copper chromium and manganese in the blood of patients receiving Ramathibodi Standard Parenteral Nutrition (STD) containing the Ramatrace or the commercial product.

Material And Method: Two groups of patients receiving STD were recruited.

Antioxidant capacity, total phenolics and sugar content of selected Thai health beverages.

This study was to determine antioxidant capacity, total phenolics and sugar content of 12 pasteurized and sterilized Thai health beverages, products of The Royal Chitralada Projects. The antioxidant capacities were analyzed using 2,2-diphenyl-l-picrylhydrazyl radical scavenging and the photochemiluminescence (PCL) assay. Folin-Ciocalteu assay and Nelson's reducing sugar test were used to determine total phenolic compounds and sugar contents, respectively.

Polyneuropathy from thiamin deficiency associated with thyrotoxicosis.

Polyneuropathy from thiamin deficiency can occur in persons who consume a diet consisting mainly of polished rice with low protein and thiamin content in the setting of excessive physical activity or hypermetabolic states. The authors report here a 17-year-old fisherman who presented with a 3-month history of symptoms and signs consistent with polyneuropathy. There were also clinical features of thyrotoxicosis which was confirmed by thyroid function test.

The effect of a soy-rich diet on urogenital atrophy: a randomized, cross-over trial.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of a soy-rich diet on urogenital symptoms, vaginal health index, and vaginal cytology in perimenopausal and postmenopausal women.

Materials And Methods: Thirty-six perimenopausal and postmenopausal women (mean age 52.5+/-5.

Iron bioavailability in Thai diets.

Dietary low iron bioavailability intake is an important causation factor of iron deficiency anemia in Asian countries including Thailand. The aim of this study was to estimate the iron bioavailability in the Thai diet by a calculation method that is based on dependent factors, dietary components and physiological iron store. Based on the the latest national nutrition survey of the Thai diet, 1995, the data of nutrient intake per capita per day by region were used for calculating the iron bioavailability at physiological iron store levels; 0, 250, 500 and 1,000 mg of iron.