The future of nutrition and wound healing.
Nutrition is vital to all bodily processes. During wound healing, it is essential that nutrients are available as they form the building blocks for tissue repair. Nutrition may therefore affect healing due to an overall deficiency of intake, either due to non-availability or due to inability of the patient to absorb sufficiently to meet their requirements. Alternatively, deficiencies of specific nutrients may also inhibit healing and on the converse some additives, not normally present in large quantity in the diet, may have beneficial effects. This review considers the nutritional factors affecting wound healing and some developments that may alter the future of therapy.
Reynolds
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Queen's Hospital, Division of Clinical Sciences, Wolverhampton, UK.
D004750:Enteral Nutrition; D006133:Growth Substances / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D009952:Ornithine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use; D010288:Parenteral Nutrition; D014815:Vitamins / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology*
D006133:Growth Substances; D014815:Vitamins; C002118:ornithine alpha-ketoglutarate; D009952:Ornithine