Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery, Table of Contents CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Indian J Plast Surg 2014; 47(02): 236-241DOI: 10.4103/0970-0358.138959 Original Article Association of Plastic Surgeons of India Comparison of the nutritional status and outcome in thermal burn patients receiving vegetarian and non-vegetarian diets Authors Author Affiliations Samira Sharma Department of Plastic Surgery, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Sector 12, Chandigarh, India Ramesh K. Sharma Department of Plastic Surgery, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Sector 12, Chandigarh, India Atul Parashar Department of Plastic Surgery, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Sector 12, Chandigarh, India Recommend Article Abstract Full Text PDF Download(opens in new window) KEY WORDS KEY WORDSBurns - diet - non-vegetarian - vegetarian - wound healing References REFERENCES 1 Hunt JR. Bioavailability of iron, zinc, and other trace minerals from vegetarian diets. Am J Clin Nutr 2003; 78: 633S-9 2 Waldmann A, Koschizke JW, Leitzmann C, Hahn A. Dietary iron intake and iron status of German female vegans: Results of the German vegan study. Ann Nutr Metab 2004; 48: 103-8 3 Young VR, Pellett PL. Plant proteins in relation to human protein and amino acid nutrition. Am J Clin Nutr 1994; 59: 1203S-12S 4 Rodriguez DJ. Nutrition in patients with severe burns: State of the art. J Burn Care Rehabil 1996; 17: 62-70 5 Curreri PW, Richmond D, Marvin J, Baxter CR. Dietary requirements of patients with major burns. J Am Diet Assoc 1974; 65: 415-7 6 Messina MJ, Messina VL. The Dietitian′s Guide to Vegetarian Diets: Issues and Applications. Gaithersburg, MD: Aspen Publishers; 1996 7 Davis B, Melina V. The New Becoming Vegetarian. Summertown TN: Book Publishing Company; 2003: p. 57-8 8 Craig WJ. Iron status of vegetarians. Am J Clin Nutr 1994; 59: 1233S-7S 9 Freeland-Graves JH, Bodzy PW, Eppright MA. Zinc status of vegetarians. J Am Diet Assoc 1980; 77: 655-61 10 Sian L, Mingyan X, Miller LV, Tong L, Krebs NF, Hambidge KM. Zinc absorption and intestinal losses of endogenous zinc in young Chinese women with marginal zinc intakes. Am J Clin Nutr 1996; 63: 348-53 11 Rosell M, Appleby P, Spencer E, Key T. Weight gain over 5 years in 21,966 meat-eating, fish-eating, vegetarian, and vegan men and women in EPIC-Oxford. Int J Obes (Lond) 2006; 30: 1389-96 12 Mattson MP. Diet-Brain Connection: Impaction on Memory, Mood, Ageing, and Disease. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers; 2002 13 Mozafar A. Is there vitamin B12 in plants or not? A plant nutritionist′s views. Vegetarian Nutr Int J 1997; 12: 50-2 14 Herrmann W, Schorr H, Obeid R, Geisel J. Vitamin B-12 status, particularly holotranscobalamin II and methylmalonic acid concentrations, and hyperhomocysteinemia in vegetarians. Am J Clin Nutr 2003; 78: 131-6 15 Antony AC. Vegetarianism and vitamin B-12 (cobalamin) deficiency. Am J Clin Nutr 2003; 78: 3-6 16 Gottsclich MM, Irenton-Jones CS. The curreri formula: A landmark process for estimating the caloric needs of burn patients. Nutr Clin Pract 2001; 16: 172-3 17 Ahuja RB, Goel A. Nutrition in burns. Indian J Burns 1993; 1: 50-6 18 Deitch EA. Nutritional support of the burn patient. Crit Care Clin 1995; 11: 735-50 19 Prelack K, Dylewski M, Sheridan RL. Practical guidelines for nutritional management of burn injury and recovery. Burns 2007; 33: 14-24 20 Reeves MM, Capra S. Predicting energy requirements in the clinical setting: Are current methods evidence based?. Nutr Rev 2003; 61: 143-51
