Diabetes: Diabetic Foot Ulcers could be Cure by A Vitamin A Compound
A compound of vitamin A called topical Retin-A better known as tretinoin, essentially used to treat acne complications, enhances the healing of foot ulcers in patients with diabetes, in keeping with a report of the files of Dermatology.
Though preceding studies showed that topical Retin-A was a bit useful in enhancing wound healing in patients with diabetes and a few results were debated by different scientifics, a group of researchers attempted to know if tretinoin truly helped or not to these patients.
The analysis was carried out with 24 volunteers who had diabetic foot ulcers but who showed no evidence of infection or circulation complications in their extremities. a few patients were assigned to 4 weeks of every day treatment with topical 0.05 per cent tretinoin solution meanwhile the control group was assigned to a antidote with a saline solution. Both groups were assessed every 2 weeks.
The 22 volunteers who completed the study were suffering from a total of 24 foot ulcers. 18 per cent of patients in the control group (2 of the 11 ulcers) and 46 per cent of patients in the treated group (6 of the 13 ulcers) accomplished a complete healing at the closing of 16 weeks. There was no statistical significance of harmful events, though a few patients experienced mild pain at the ulcer site.
The researchers were pleased with the results, even though they were a bit concerned for the reason that tretinoin irritates and they thought that the patients would become so irritated that they wouldn’t be able to restart the analysis. anyhow, this situation did not seem to be a problem on many cases, as they explained.
A conclusion for the researchers was that they hope that diabetic foot clinics know about this and use Retin-A when other therapies that they use do not work.
