PENGARUH STATUS GIZI AWAL DAN KONSUMSI CHLORELLA GROWTH FACTOR TERHADAP KELUHAN KLINIS PENDERITA DEMAM BERDARAH DENGUE

Gina Apriani (Departemen Gizi Masyarakat, Fakultas Ekologi Manusia, Institut Pertanian Bogor)
Hardinsyah Hardinsyah (Departemen Gizi Masyarakat, Fakultas Ekologi Manusia, Insitut Pertanian Bogor)
Yekti Hartati Effendi (Departemen Gizi Masyarakat, Fakultas Ekologi Manusia, Insitut Pertanian Bogor)

Jurnal Gizi dan Pangan
Vol. 5 No. 3 (2010)

The objective of this study was to analyze the effect of pre-nutritional status and consumption of Chlorella Growth Factor (CGF) on symptom of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF). Design of this study was a randomized clinical trial with 37 subjects of intervention group and 37 subjects of control group. The subjects were DHF in-patient of economic class of Karya Bhakti Hospital. The criteria for subjects were DHF in-patients (grade II and III), age ≥ 17 years, fever up to 7 days, serology Dengue Ig M (+), platelet <100.000/mm3, not pregnant and not suffering from immune impaired diseases. The result show that effect of pre-nutritional status (p> 0.01) was not significant, but the effect CGF consumption was significant (p< 0.01) on clinical symptom of DHF. This implies that CGF reduced the symptom severity of DHF. Further studies required for identify the actual bioactive components of CGF effects on DHF; and effect of selected nutritional biomarkers on DHF.