[Early enteral feeding and supplement of glutamine prevent occurrence of stress ulcer following severe thermal injury].

UNLABELLED: Gastroscopic and gastric juice analysis studies were carried out on 12 patients with total body surface area over 30 percent who received early enteral feeding, supplemented with glutamine. The results indicated that early feeding was safe in major burn patients. All patients were found to have ASML on postburn days 1 to 2. Stress ulcer was not found in patients after several excision operations, and about 86 percent of ASML disappeared within about 2 weeks. CONCLUSION: early feeding and supplement of glutamine can prevent the complication of stress ulcer following severe thermal injury.