Advances in Skin, Wound Care and Tissue Science

Skin and Nutrition

Nutrition plays a vital role in skin function and wound care practices and nutritional support needs to be considered an elementary a part of wound management. Wound healing and skin nutrition assessment is a complex process. Neglecting the nutritional skin health and palliative wound care of an individual will compromise the complete wound management method and also show Skin effect. Antioxidants such as beta-carotene and vitamins C, E, and A can curb the damage caused by unstable molecules known as free radicals. These molecules can harm skin cells and cause signs of aging and reduces skin glow.