Research Paper on:
Healing Wounds and the Role of Nutrition

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by which enhanced nutrition positively affects wound healing are assumed to be well known. There may be other aspects of the relationship that are not yet known, but medical  research and practice has established the importance of protein, Vitamin C, zinc and other categories of compounds necessary to optimum healing. This knowledge is tested through research on a  rather regular basis, according to information available in the literature, and researchers continue to find significant links between investigated nutritional types and the progress of wound healing.  One aspect of the relationship of wound healing and nutrition that has not been researched quite so well lies in the common belief that enteral (through  the intestines) methods of delivering nutrition are superior to parenteral (bypassing the intestines) methods. Recent studies have concluded that enteral feeding does indeed produce better results (Bozzetti, Braga, Gianotti,  Gavazzi and Mariani, 2001; (Kiyama, Whitte, Thorton and Barbul, 1998). These findings raise managerial issues that the results of the research efforts can inform. Two Studies  Kiyama, Whitte, Thorton and Barbul (1998) conducted a study on rats, subjecting 49 to surgery "consisting of central venous catheterization, gastronomy and dorsal skin incision, and  placement of polyvinyl alcohol sponges into subcutaneous pockets" (p. 7). Each of the rats were "given a nutritional solution containing 25% dextrose, 4.25% amino acids, and vitamins" (Kiyama, Whitte,  Thorton and Barbul, 1998; p. 7); approximately half received the nutritional solution "formula via gastronomy (enteral route) and the remaining half by the venous catheter (parenteral route)" (Kiyama, Whitte, Thorton  and Barbul, 1998; p. 7). The rats were killed at between five and ten days, when researchers assessed would "breaking strength, sponge hydroxyproline