Glutathione or NAC (n-acetylcysteine) enemas for severe irritation?

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We already know glutathione absorbs into bowel linng cells although if taken

orally it would break down before it gets there. Obviously, glurtathione would

be a good candidate for renentive enemas to relieve bowel lining damage.

In this mouse model of colitis researchers induced similar relief with

n-acetylcysteine saline enemas.

Conclusion: (snip)...results suggest that NAC may be effective in the treatment

of colitis through its up-regulating PON1 and scavenging oxygen-derived free

radicals.(/snip)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19034653?ordinalpos=2 & itool=EntrezSystem2.PEn\

trez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

People on this list with Crohn's or colitis or even severe bowel irritation may

want to try it. We nkow the glutahtione works in humans but human studies

haven't been done on the NAC. Still, it couldn't harm either.

Note similar research in the right-hand box.

Duncan