Re: Advise on PLHAs Eating Rice Stored overnight

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Dear Sreeram,

Re: /message/10068

Yes we doctors trained in Modern Medicine are notorious for giving impractical

advices to patients and it is more so regarding HIV care.Many of the nutritional

guidelines and training also give us theoretically sound but practically

impossible ideas.

And most of the time patients are intelligent enough to ignore them especially

when health workers are from different social strata.

At the same time HIV give us an opportunity to change the  way we see things

There is a need for research to identify or develop a culturally acceptable and

hygienic nutritional habit for each society.

Regrading the specific question  of eating cooked rice of previous night,

Theoretically it is possible that such food may have bacterial of fungal

contamination.

But what is the reality? If it causes food poisoning it should have beeb known

to us as this practice is widely prevalent for years.

It is important to do a study on the morbidity of patients eating such food,

probably do a microbiological study of such food before suggesting this habit is

bad. This can be done with out any difficulty in any place with basic minimum

facilities.

Regards

Dr Ajith

e-mail: <ajisudha@...>

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Dr Ajithkumar.K

Asst Professor In Dermatology and Veneriology

Medical college Chest Hospital

MG Kav,Trichur, Kerala ,India

Ph 04872333322 (res)

9447226012