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While coconut water has been promoted during the 21st century as a healthy drink, its reputed medical properties have been the subject of anecdotal claims dating back decades earlier. For example, beyond its more banal hangover-cure claims, unproven accounts have existed for decades that during World War II, British and Japanese troops used the liquid, freshly drained from the inside of a coconut, to administer emergency intravenous treatments to their troops. (We contacted the War Studies department at King's College in England seeking comment on those stories, but have yet to hear back.) More recently, a 2002 column published in the Sri Lankan Sunday Observer calling coconut water the fluid of life stated that it could be used as a stand-in for blood plasma because it is sterile, pyrogen-free and does not produce heat, and does not destroy blood cells. Health-related web sites like Body Ecology and Listverse have made similar claims. As the latter blog reported in December 2017: The claim also surfaced in a humorous post about vegan vampires circulating online: But according to George Yaghmour, a licensed doctor and an assistant professor of clinical medicine at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine, the consequences of using coconut water as a plasma substitute are not funny at all; he told us: Yaghmour also told us that during periods of crisis, such as major conflicts or epidemics, coconut water may have served as an alternative for medical personnel to buy time for treatment. But the acidity, hypotonicity, and high potassium do not make coconut water the ideal resuscitation solution.' To date, we have also been unable to confirm the existence of vampires — vegan, tropical, or otherwise.
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