Effectiveness of Conventional and Herbal Treatment on Diabetic Foot Ulcer Using Bates-Jensen Wound Assessment Tool.

Diabetic mellitus type 2 is s metabolic disease and a silent killer disease which leads to systemic complications especially in major blood vessels, nerves, kidneys, and eyes. In uncontrolled diabetic the foot ulcers are common complication which ends up with gangrene of the foot and amputation. The aim of this study is to compare the effectiveness of conventional and herbal treatment in diabetic foot ulcer. A total of 160 diabetic patients with foot ulcer were selected randomly and divided into conventional and herbal treatment groups (n=80 each). In conventional treatment group and in herbal treatment group the wound was assessed by using of Bates Jensen wound assessment tool, in pre-test and post test 1 after 15 days and post test 2 after 30 days. There are significant changes Jansen wound assessment tool was used to study the type of wound which consists of 13 parameters and 10 parameters were taken in this study i.e. (1) size (2) depth (3) edges (4) exudates type (5) exudates amount (6) skin colour surrounding wound (7) peripheral tissue edema (8) peripheral tissue induration (9) granulation tissue and (10) epithelialisation. In all the parameters the χ² value changes and the P value is <0.001 which is significant. The herbal treatment had more healing effect while comparing with the conventional treatment.