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| L-Glutamine | 500
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| L-Glutamine | 8
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Indications:
L-Glutamine helps with a number of the causes of diarrhea. These include:
- Chronic diarrhea
- Animals that have food allergies
- Animals that are sensitive to foods, developing diarrhea with any alterations to their diet
- Inflammatory bowel disorders
- Colitis
- Animals that suffer from frequent bouts with loose-formed, mucous- coated or watery diarrhea
- Recurring diarrhea due to parasites, Giardia, and bacteria
- Balance phase detoxification... often said to be the "poor mans" detoxification program
L-glutamine is the most abundant amino acid in the circulation and in the intracellular amino acid pool. Glutamine is the primary vehicle for nitrogen transfer between tissues. Although it is synthesized in the body from glutamic acid, glutamine is considered to be a conditionally essential amino acid due to a greatly increased demand for glutamine in catabolic states. For example, during:
- starvation and decreased appetite
- surgery
- injury
- infection
This demand may not be met by metabolic synthesis. Stored principally in skeletal muscle, glutamine is released as needed and is taken up primarily by the GI tract, where it is used as the preferred fuel for enterocytes of the small intestine. Large bowel mucosal cells (colonocytes) also utilize glutamine, although butyrate is their principal fuel.
Glutamine supplementation has been shown to increase small bowel mucosal thickness, villous height, and nitrogen content, and may preserve the integrity and/or speed the healing of the intestinal mucosa. Glutamine also enhances gut immune function, as it decreases bacterial translocation across the gut wall, increases secretory IgA levels and decreases bacterial adherence to enterocytes.
Glutamine was found to be beneficial in calves with diarrhea . Other uses
for glutamine might include chronically ill patients that are sustaining
a long-lasting catabolic state, following intestinal surgery, as a supplement
during endurance training, intestinal permeability disorders, hepatic
disease, and immune boosting of lymphocytes and interferon.
Potential uses:
- Small intestinal diarrhea
- Chronic disease with immune suppression
- Acute diarrhea
- Adjunct to antibiotic therapy
- Giardia therapy (also see Paraguard®, click here, the use your web browser's back button to return to this page)
- Proventricular and Vetricular disease in birds
- Seeds passing in droppings
- Diarrhea in Llamas and Alpacas
Other links to explore:
- Diarrhea in dogs, click here
- Diarrhea in cats, click here
- Gastriplex, click here
Dosage:
Cats:
1/4 capsule, 1 - 2 times daily
Dogs:
1-25 lbs=1/2 capsule twice daily
25-50 lbs=1/2 - 1 capsule twice daily
50-100 lbs=1 - 2 capsules twice daily
Birds:
1/8 capsule daily, mixed into 2 tablespoons of soft foods such as yogurt, peanut butter or bean mixes
Alpacas and Llamas
- 1
capsule three times daily