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Do dietary changes assist with wound healing?
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Do dietary changes assist with wound healing?

Dr Simon Ashwell discusses the way diet can impact the healing of wounds by managing blood glucose levels.

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Would dietary changes assist with wound healing? Dietary changes themselves usually will not help wound healing unless this is done to help to improve blood glucose control because high blood glucose levels increase the risk of wound infections and we therefore in people with diabetes and a foetal so it is good to improve blood glucose controlled and ensure that blood glucose levels are well controlled, which usually means levels of between say four and a half and seven and a half millimoles per litre before meals. And if blood glucose levels are higher than that, then dietary changes to help to reduce blood glucose levels can help. Weight loss can help, avoiding high sugar foods can help, and lower blood glucose levels can help also healing by reducing infection.

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