Efficacy of Glutamine Supplementation in Patients Suffering From Irritable Bowel Syndrome With Impaired Intestinal Permeability

Who can take part

• Adult aged 18 to 75
• Diarrheal irritable bowel syndrome (IBS-D), according to the Rome IV criteria (appendix 2)
• Francis score > 175/500 at inclusion (corresponding to moderate to severe IBS)
• Treatments for IBS stable for >1 month
• Affiliation to a social security system
• Adult person having read and understood the information letter and signed the consent form
• Woman of childbearing age having effective/very effective contraception (Cf. CTFG) (estrogen-progestins or intrauterine device or tubal ligation) for 1 month and a negative urine pregnancy test
• Postmenopausal woman: confirmatory diagnosis (amenorrhea not medically induced for at least 12 months before the inclusion visit or biologically documented)

Who cannot take part

• Taking probiotics, anti-inflammatories, corticosteroids or antibiotics systemically (oral or injectable) in the month preceding the study and during the duration of the study treatment,
• Known diagnosis of active autoimmune disease (type 1 diabetes, lupus, multiple sclerosis, thyroiditis, ankylosing spondylitis, rheumatoid arthritis or psoriasis)
• Known allergy to glutamine,
• ATCD of digestive disease (celiac disease, chronic inflammatory bowel disease, abdominal surgery other than appendectomy or cholecystectomy),
• Occlusive or subocclusive syndrome,
• Digestive perforation or suspicion of perforation,
• Abdominal pain syndrome of undetermined cause,
• History of illness or psychological or sensory abnormality likely to prevent the subject from fully understanding the conditions required for participation in the protocol or preventing them from giving informed consent
• Renal insufficiency (GFR<40mL/min), hepatic insufficiency (PT<70) or known heart disease,
• Contraindication to taking glutamine, protein powder, lactulose or mannitol (including sugar-free chewing gum),
• Use of osmotic laxatives and/or taking lactulose and/or protein supplementation (including taking glutamine) in the 4 weeks preceding the start of the study,
• Chronic alcohol consumption (>14 units/week),
• Pregnant or parturient or breastfeeding woman or proven absence of contraception,
• Person deprived of liberty by an administrative or judicial decision or person placed under judicial protection/under guardianship or curatorship,
• Person participating in research participating in another trial / having participated in another trial within 2 weeks,