Diabetic foot ulcers heal quickly with nitric oxide technology

[Northerner]

Diabetic foot ulcers can take up to 150 days to heal. A biomedical engineering team wants to reduce it to 21 days.

They're planning to drop the healing time by amplifying what the body already does naturally: build layers of new tissue pumped up by nitric oxide. In patients with diabetes, impaired nitric oxide production lessens the healing power of skin cells and the Centers for Disease Control reports that 15 percent of Americans living with type II diabetes struggle with hard-to-heal foot ulcers. However, simply pumping up nitric oxide is not necessarily better. The long-term plan of Michigan Technological University researchers is to create nitric oxide-laden bandages that adjust the chemical release depending on the cell conditions.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181114104116.htm

Sounds promising 🙂

 

[ukjohn]

My foot ulcer took nearly 12 months to be cleared, it had to heal from the inside (which was a hole) to the outside, after about 7 months they started to use plasters that were impregnated with Manuka Honey, they were brilliant and did the job in no time at all.

John.