ALOE VERA GEL VERSUS SILVER SULFADIAZINE CREAM (SSD, 1%) IN TERMS OF WOUND DURATION & EPITHELIALIZATION, PAIN RELIEF AND IN THE SECOND-DEGREE BURN CASES

Objective: Our research was aimed at the efficacy assessment of gel of Aloe Vera in comparison to the silver sulfadiazine cream (1%) in terms of dressing for the burns to treat the partially thick and superficial burns.

Methods: Research design was comparative interventional which was carried out in the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Lahore (Department of Plastic Surgery and Burn Unit) in the period of July, 2015 to December, 2017 on fifty patients who had partially thick and superficial burns. We made two groups out of the total sample respectively A and B treated with Aloe Vera gel and silver sulfadiazine cream (1%). We made a comparison of the outcomes such as wound duration, pain relief, wound epithelialization and treatment cost.

Results: The Aloe Vera gel managed cases the wound healing was rapid than the silver sulfadiazine (1%). An earlier relief of pain was observed in the Aloe Vera group than the SSD group.

Conclusion: The dressing of Aloe Vera gel on the patients of thermal burns was better the SSD dressing in terms of wound epithelialization, rapid and earlier pain relief and it was also cost-effective.

Keywords: Second-degree burns, Aloe Vera gel, Silver sulfadiazine cream (SSD, 1%).