Oral glutamine reduces the duration and severity of stomatitis after cytotoxic cancer chemotherapy

Mouth sores and/or difficulty swallowing are common and painful consequences of cytotoxic chemotherapy for cancer. In previous studies oral glutamine was found to protect animals from the effects of whole abdominal radiation and methotrexate‐induced enteritis. Glutamine also was found to reduce oral mucositis in a nonrandomized pilot study in humans. Therefore, the authors attempted to determine the efficacy of oral glutamine in a randomized, double blind, crossover trial in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy.

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