Wound dressings play a crucial role in promoting efficient wound closure and healing by providing an environment conducive to tissue repair. Traditional wound dressings, such as cellulose-based gauze, often exhibit challenges in adhesion and exudate absorption, necessitating frequent replacements that may cause additional trauma. Biocellulose (BC), derived from bacteria, presents a natural c…
Diabetes is one of the most lethal and ninth most common diseases in the world, which is a metabolic disorder that causes a high and unusual blood sugar level due to the inability of the body to utilize sugar. Diabetes can cause multiple complications and damage to the system, one of them is diabetic foot ulcers (DFU). The most advanced treatment nowadays for DFU is by utilizing bio-cellulose, …
Diabetes has been categorized as the fifth highest mortality cause worldwide. The diabetic wound has an altered wound-healing mechanism which leads to longer inflammination stages and higher chances of infection. Hence, it causes chronic wounds. Because it is necessary to keep the wound moist and manage exudate, the wound dressing selections is essential in the management of the wound. Bacteria…
Diabetes mellitus is a global health issue that is gaining traction in our healthcare system which leads to impaired wound healing and results in chronic ulcers, these increases the risk of amputation and disease mortality rate by 50-59% in 2020. Therefore, better inventions to treat diabetic ulcers are required. A bio-cellulose hydrogel is a form of wound dressing that can aid in protecting t…
Chronic diabec wound is a common complicaon in diabetes mellitus which is caused by a prolonged wound-healing process from a persistent inflammaon phase. Thus, proper wound treatment is needed to promote wound healing and protect the wound from infecon. Biocellulose (BC) as wound dressing provides a moist environment to protect skin and pr…
Wound healing is a process that naturally takes place when the body is injured, comprising four phases: hemostasis, inflammaon, proliferaon, and remodeling. Proper wound care is crucial to prevent infecon and complicaons that can impact the paent's quality of life, and to accelerate the healing process. Biocellulose (BC), a bacterial-derived …
Skin wound healing is a biological course of events where a series of molecular and cellular events works together to restore the damaged tissue in four phases. Several factors could interfere with the completion of those phases, causing delayed and abnormal wounds which may lead to ulcers. Commonly, the formation of ulcers is associated with type II diabetes mellitus (T2DM) disorder which …
Diabetic foot ulcers are the most common complications in persons with poorly controlled diabetes (DM). This syndrome can be caused by inadequate glycemic control, underlying neuropathy, a slow and progressive circulation disorder (PVD), or terrible foot care. Around the world, 9.1 to 26.1 million suffer from diabetic foot ulcers. Usually, people at any age are commonly suffering from diabet…
In Indonesia, the wound prevalence, in general, was 8.2% during 2013, with chronic wounds that have an increasing number of cases every year. In 2019, the largest share in the wound dressing market was held by advanced wound dressings due to increased cases. Natural materials, such as biocellulose and Calophyllum inophyllum (tamanu) oil, were shown to treat wounds efficiently and hinder the gro…