Mencegah Infeksi Difertikula dengan Asupan Serat Makanan yang Cukup

Abstract

Diferticula are the small circle sacks in various size, patch at external wall of colon as effect of the strong pressure of large intestine peristaltic. Diferticula become dangerous when loaded much bulky i.e chilli seed, tomato seed, or shiver of grain shuck. The metabolism activity of microorganism that infiltrated to the diferticula’s sack may cause a diferticulitis or diferticula infection. When diferticulitis has happened, it can cause disease like colon cancer, pile and rectum cancer. Dietary fiber was very needed and has important role to the body health maintenance. The amount of dietary fiber and their availability in the body may prevent diferticulitis and also other diseases such as colon iritation, colon cancer, tumor, and other infections that come from diferticulitis. All of diseases have fatal effect to the patient. In fact, the early prevention can be done very easily by consuming of dietary fiber in recommended amount. The recommended dietary fiber could be obtained through fruit and vegetable consumption routinely or consumption of various food in daily food pattern.