Persepsi Masyarakat terhadap Vitamin C sebagai Wujud Penanggulangan Common Cold
Common cold or salesma is a common disease that easily found anywhere to anybody, effective method needed in discovery process that was expected can be improved by Vitamin C intake. Despite, people’s perception nowadays, presume that Vitamin C doesn’t have effect for curing and preventing common cold. This research was aiming to know about how are people’s perception about Vitamin C and its effect to common cold, and their perception about other benefit of consuming Vitamin C in daily life. Methods: this is a descriptive-qualitative research done by interviewing the amount of people who have suffered from common cold with purposive sampling, with 15-59 years old. Result: showing low value of people with perception that Vitamin C beneficially to common cold, and various perception about benefit of Vitamin C to human body, especially for maintaining immunity. Conclusion: only a few people’s perception about benefits of Vitamin C toward common cold, but actually Vitamin C could enhance immunity, potent antioxidant, reduce inflammatory, prevent infection, and treat common cold. Implication: Suplementation of Vitamin C in daily life is good for maintaining immune system, but don’t exceed from its limit which body can absorb. Better ask doctor or expert if you want to consume Vitamin C with extradose to cure your common cold