50 percent of diabetes patients develop these ulcers because they do not live in favorable conditions or wounds are not treated.
Researchers and students of the University Center of Tonalá created an elastic band that allows you to cure and protect from infections the ulcers formed in people with diabetic or ulcerated foot, which could be marketed in a short time and at low cost.
This element was created from a research project that joints nanotechnology and medicine, with the aim of providing a healing alternative to the population with diabetes, explained the researcher at that center, David López de la Mora.
One of the participating students, Pablo Pérez, said the research team processed with chemicals the remains of crustacean shell such as shrimp or jaiba to turn them into gel.
To this, they added medication and small nanoparticles to create a plastic -like biopolymer with which food is wrapped.
This elastic band is placed as if it were a bandage, with the difference that the medication it contains is absorbed by the patient, helping the healing of the wound and avoiding the arrival of bacteria and has only two millimeters thick and with flexibilityTo adapt to the skin.
"We seek that the patient with diabetic foot or with ulcerative diseases that are commonly made cleaning, decrease the wound healing time and do not risk infections," said the academic.
According to López de la Mora, 50 percent of diabetes patients develop these ulcers because they do not live in favorable conditions or wounds are not treated, so it is easy for infections to advance rapidly.
The clinical phase, that is, will create a protocol so that diabetics are registered as volunteers to test this elastic band and corroborate its effectiveness and that, where appropriate, can be marketed, will begin in 2016, explained Dr. Ruth Padilla Muñoz,Rector of Cu Tonalá.
