Herbal medicines for diabetic foot ulcers

NewsBot · Dec 18, 2014

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Potential Use of Herbal Medicines in the Treatment of Diabetic Foot Ulcers.
Kolipara Radhakrishna, Narayana Redy Kari VS, Mahendran Baskaran, Gowthamarajan Kupusamy.
Medical Science, 2014, 14(56), 34-42 (Full text)

The complications of diabetes became a heavy burden to the patient as wel as physician. Among the various complications, diabetic fot ulcer
(DFU) is important since the major deaths in diabetes are due to DFU, which arises as a consequence of complicated and multi-factorial
pathologies. The treatments using a single strategy may unlikely les efective and also the overal costs of these therapies are high. From long
since, many commonly used herbs and spices are claimed to have wound healing efects with various mechanisms. Hence their aplication in
the treatment of DFU may not only synergize the diabetic wound healing but also reduce the overal cost. This review discuses the posible
use of herbs in treating DFUs with their mechanisms.
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Effectiveness of Conventional and Herbal Treatment on Diabetic Foot Ulcer Using Bates-Jensen Wound Assessment Tool.
Mary Sr. A. Jeya et al
International Journal of Nursing Education; Year : 2017, Volume : 9, Issue : 4

Diabetic mellitus type 2 is s metabolic disease and a silent killer disease which leads to systemic complications especially in major blood vessels, nerves, kidneys, and eyes. In uncontrolled diabetic the foot ulcers are common complication which ends up with gangrene of the foot and amputation. The aim of this study is to compare the effectiveness of conventional and herbal treatment in diabetic foot ulcer. A total of 160 diabetic patients with foot ulcer were selected randomly and divided into conventional and herbal treatment groups (n=80 each). In conventional treatment group and in herbal treatment group the wound was assessed by using of Bates Jensen wound assessment tool, in pre-test and post test 1 after 15 days and post test 2 after 30 days. There are significant changes Jansen wound assessment tool was used to study the type of wound which consists of 13 parameters and 10 parameters were taken in this study i.e. (1) size (2) depth (3) edges (4) exudates type (5) exudates amount (6) skin colour surrounding wound (7) peripheral tissue edema (8) peripheral tissue induration (9) granulation tissue and (10) epithelialisation. In all the parameters the χ2 value changes and the P value is <0.001 which is significant. The herbal treatment had more healing effect while comparing with the conventional treatment.
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