Germs! Germs are every where. They are on things you touch, in the air, and even all over your body. Instead of referring to them as germs, lets refer to them as bacteria. There are normal microbes, that are always on your skin, and these are actually helpful bacteria that help keep your immune system strong.
Researchers at The University of Manchester suggest that these microbes on ones skin, actually effect the way a wound can heal. Researcher Dr. Mathew Hardman did a study that compared the skin microbes of people with and without chronic wounds, to see how it effect their healing process. Their study concluded that the microbes on the skin definitely have an impact on the process of wound healing and these certain microbes directly correlate with ones genetic makeup. When they did a similar study on mice, it showed that gene that lacked this "healing gene" had a slower healing process.
I think that this could be a very helpful discovery in medicine. Something that I learned from this article is that 1 in 20 elderly live with chronic wounds. These wounds are painful and can linger around for years because they just seem to not be able to heal. If doctors can find out how to heal these wounds and find out what causes them to appear, then that would be beneficial. Also, if the researcher's can repeat these conclusion several more times, that the microbes on a person's skin is in fact related to healing, then maybe they could find treatments for chronic wounds.
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This is a really cool article. I believe I heard about this before and when I saw this title I just had to read it. It's crazy to know microbes on the skin have an impact on the way wounds heal. It would be interesting if people could make a drug that speeds up these microbes and could heal major wounds in secs.
ReplyDeleteWorking in a hospital,you get used to germs all around you. This is an interesting article on the research for wound healing. I do see alot of patients with chronic long term wounds that just won't heal, hopefully the elderly will be able to benefit from these trials and or diabetic patients.
ReplyDeleteNever heard of this before but using these microbes to speed of the recovery period of serious wounds would be such a great feat for the health field. Would also be interesting to see if using the microbes also decreases the amount of scar tissue formed.
ReplyDeleteI have never heard of this before and I do not know any elderly people with chronic wounds. That sounds very painful and a horrible condition to have to deal with for the rest of your life.
ReplyDeleteI have briefly heard about this, and found it innovative that they are coming out with such an interesting concept for wound care. I think that it would be efficient and beneficial to the medical field to have this type of care treatment.
ReplyDeleteThis is really cool to read about. The fact that there are bacteria everywhere on us is weird but that these bacteria also help wounds is even more remarkable. If researchers can see how these bacteria heal wound maybe this could help older people with these chronic wounds.
ReplyDeleteI find it a bit creepy that having bacteria on our skin can actually help our healing process. Once again, high schools are teaching us all the wrong things like "germs and bacteria are bad." I would have never thought that they could be beneficial, or even that they have a genetic linkage, that is pretty interesting.
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