Use of topical glutamine as an adjuvant for the treatment of oral ulcers - Critical Care Science (CCS)

To the Editor

Glutamine is the most commonly found free amino acid in the human body. When applied to clinical lesions, glutamine can aid in the recovery of severe presentations, reduce infections and even decrease the length of hospital stay because it causes symptom remission. For patients with severe systemic presentations, this amino acid is classified as essential because it is required by the body. Glutamine can reduce the inflammatory response, antagonize prostaglandins and regulate the activities of cytotoxic natural killer (NK) lymphocytes⁽⁾ and neutrophils;⁽⁾ reduction of its serum level is extremely harmful to the body.

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