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Hye all...

I'm so interested to share with your all about this...please read till the end...

after that, it's up to you...

With recent cases on the Gelyang Serai, Spore food poisoning out break (with
2 deaths to date), I would like to share the info received from a friend. Pls
read on it may be of help....

When someone gets diarrhoea(Need to ask to the doctor for details), sometimes the solution is so easy, we wonder
why anyone has to suffer.

The secret is in rice water.

This is already known in this region. Ask your maids -- Sri Lankan,
Indonesian, Filipina and they would know about it.

My mother knew about it. When Dr Albert Winsemius came to Singapore many
years ago for a farewell and thank you dinner in his honour, he brought
along his wife Aly and his grand daughter, Jolijn. Both women came down with
very bad gastroenteritis.. They saw the doctor who gave them medication. It
was slow to work.

Mother  boiled some rice in lots of water and went to their hotel with two
1.5L bottles of rice water.

I cringed in shame at the offer of this folk remedy, which seemed so
primitive to me. Never heard of this cure before. To my surprise, it worked,
and they were even able to go out for dinner the next day. Both were
exclaiming how the rice water did the trick of making them well again. Well,
luckily it worked, I thought to myself.

I was discussing this a few years back with Kim Ng, the ex-matron of KK
Hospital. She said, yes, that is what Professor Wong Hock Boon, the notable
paediatrician teaches. I was shocked and made some comments how could he? It
was common knowledge so what had he got to do with it?

Many months later, I regretted laughing at it. Dr Christina Shanta Emmanuel,
who is the CEO of...uh, which group I have forgotten. Either National Health
Group, or Polyclinics, or whatever... regarded me seriously when I brought
up the topic like it was good fun. She said that Prof Wong Hock Boon had
presented a paper on it. At some conference. After he had done clinical
trials.

Then his results were published in the Lancet, the Medical Journal all
doctors read. In fact, said Shanta, he was credited for saving the lives of
2 million African babies by this method.

Ah, so!  I am impressed.

It is rice water and not rice, that does the trick. I have found it
effective again and again. You take a handful of rice and boil it in a large
saucepan with lots of water. Like three or four large glasses.
Then you cool that and drink the water. If you are in a hurry to relieve the
ailing person, take the saucepan off the fire and dunk it in a frying pan or
basin of cool water with ice cubes if necessary.

This gives the patient a chance to drink the rice water sooner and cure
himself or herself sooner.

When drinking the rice water, make sure there is lots of it. You have to
tell the patient that enough water must go in to line your guts from throat
to other end, all 10 to 12 metres of it. If you take rice, it stays in the
stomach. If you take broth, some of it may go into the small intestine.

But if you take rice water, it will carry rice grains to every inch of your
small and large intestine to the end where the problem is.

How does it work? Even Prof Wong Hock Boon doesn't know.