system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Do injuries take significant amounts of calories?

Does the body use up significant amount of calories when healing wounds?
gpt
Yes but it is situational. The injury severity will determine the amount of calories needed for repair. One example is that a second or third degree burn will require substantially more calories for all the metabolic activities required to repair the damaged tissue. Something of this nature can actually cause weight loss in patients who have been hospitalized due to a burn covering a significant amount of the body. To counter this, extra food or supplements will be given to those patients. Something minor like a paper cut will require some caloric energy but nothing major.