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Study aim
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Determining the effectiveness of herbal supplement prepared from savory essential oil on diabetic wounds
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Design
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A clinical trial with a control group, with parallel, non-blind, simple randomized groups, phase 2-3 on 20 patients.
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Settings and conduct
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In Vali Asr hospital of Arak, the patient is treated for two months. Clinical trial with control group, with parallel, non-blind, simple randomized groups, phase 2-3 on 20 patients.
Patients are randomly divided into two groups of 10 people. One group consists of routine care with routine treatment, and distilled water as placebo, and the second group consists of routine care with routine treatment plus savory essential oil.
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Participants/Inclusion and exclusion criteria
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Inclusion criteria: Presence of diabetes mellitus, clinical findings indicating wound infection such as redness, swelling, and discharge, presence of ulcers in the extremities.
Exclusion criteria: Chronic disease other than diabetes that affects wound healing, such as severe vascular disease, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, burgers, and kidney failure.
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Intervention groups
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Rinse the wound with normal saline, spray savory essential oil on the wound with a spray, and then sterile gauze impregnated with savory essential oil is placed on the wound and bandaged. Depending on the patient's condition, this is a maximum of one or two times a day dressing of patients, and the next time a day dressing of standard treatment according to the specialized principles of treatment, wounds are bandaged. In the control group, in one of the daily dressings, after washing the wound with normal saline, it is sprayed on the wound with sterile distilled water and sprayed with sterile gas impregnated with distilled water.
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Main outcome variables
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The duration of treatment