The Effectiveness of Original Honey Treatment toward Diabetic Foot Infection Wounds Healing

Rentawati Purba, Rostiodertina Girsang, Dewi Tiansa Barus, Nur Mala Sari

2019

Abstract

Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a group of heterogeneous abnormalities characterized by an increase in blood glucose levels or hyperglycemia. The impact is very broad which will affect the quality of patient’s life. One of the most common complications is diabetic foot infection wounds; it is predicted surge up to 14.1 million people with prevalence rate of 6.67% in the adult population. Dysabetic wounds are very easy to cause complications in the form of infections due to bacterial invasion and the presence of hyperglycemia being the optimal place for bacterial growth. Honey is believed since the time of ancestors in curing various diseases, including wound infections. This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of honey treatment for diabetic foot infection wounds healing. The study design was one group pre-post test with comparison group. The samples number were 20 respondents with wound care for 50 days, the study results were good indicators seen from changes in wound diameter from day to day. In this study, the data were analyzed with Wilcoxon test and the results were 0.001 (p <0.05). Then it showed that original honey usage was more effective in diabetic foot infection wounds healing. Recommendations from the study results that honey therapy can be done as one of the replacement therapies to treat wounds caused by diabetic foot infections.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Purba R., Girsang R., Barus D. and Sari N. (2019). The Effectiveness of Original Honey Treatment toward Diabetic Foot Infection Wounds Healing.In Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics and Medical Application Technology - Volume 1: ICHIMAT, ISBN 978-989-758-460-2, pages 36-42. DOI: 10.5220/0009462200360042

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ichimat19,
author={Rentawati Purba and Rostiodertina Girsang and Dewi Tiansa Barus and Nur Mala Sari},
title={The Effectiveness of Original Honey Treatment toward Diabetic Foot Infection Wounds Healing},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics and Medical Application Technology - Volume 1: ICHIMAT,},
year={2019},
pages={36-42},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009462200360042},
isbn={978-989-758-460-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics and Medical Application Technology - Volume 1: ICHIMAT,
TI - The Effectiveness of Original Honey Treatment toward Diabetic Foot Infection Wounds Healing
SN - 978-989-758-460-2
AU - Purba R.
AU - Girsang R.
AU - Barus D.
AU - Sari N.
PY - 2019
SP - 36
EP - 42
DO - 10.5220/0009462200360042