L-Glutamine for Wound Healing
Glutamine matters in burns and critical illness rather than routine wounds.
Overview
Verdict
How It Works
Dosing & Protocol
Typical dose
- Recommended dose
- Only in catabolic states, clinician-guided
- Expected timeframe
- 2-4 weeks
Protocol
- form
- Not applicable
- duration
- Not applicable
- co factor
- Evidence is insufficient. Glutamine supports proliferating fibroblasts and immune cells and is a nitrogen donor for collagen precursors, and it becomes conditionally essential in severe catabolic states, so burns and major trauma are where it has been studied - at 0.3-0.5 g/kg/day, sometimes with arginine and other immunonutrients. Results are inconsistent: some burn studies report faster wound closure and fewer infections, others show nothing, and because glutamine is usually given as part of a combined immunonutrition formula, its individual contribution cannot be separated. There is no evidence for glutamine in ordinary wound healing in well-nourished people.
- titration
- Not applicable
- starting dose
- Not applicable as an established treatment outside supervised clinical nutrition
Evidence
What the studies say
No studies are yet linked to both L-Glutamine and Wound Healing.
Safety
Caveats
No benefit in ordinary wounds. Avoid in liver and kidney disease.
Less likely to help if
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