polyheal

Sorry if this has been posted about before.
I have only been following the TIS forum for a couple of months and a quick search didn't turn up any related posts...

After reading the wound care report posted by Roy2U yesterday I followed up on a product that was mentioned there.

Polyheal is also targeted at healing diabetic, venous and pressure wounds. The technology involves charged polystyrene microspheres which are suspended in a solution that the patient can apply topically to the wound.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px5R0gsLVSA

http://www.wounds-uk.com/pdf/content_9686.pdf

http://www.tevauk.com/news/view/105


The clinical trial described points to Polyheal providing significant help in healing these types of wounds. However I found it a bit difficult to directly compare VitroGro results to those of Polyheal as they talk about successful healing in slightly different ways. My initial impression was that VitroGro results show faster and more complete healing.

Other differences I noted were:
- Polyheal was applied 1 or 2 times daily (VitroGro 1 or 2 times weekly)
- the bandaging was also wetted with Polyheal (VitroGro is effective with very small amounts)
- the article mentioned pain as being an issue with some of the Polyheal patients, although they seemed to put that down to a consequence of healing itself (TIS has emphasised pain reduction for patients as one of the benefits of VitroGro)

According to the TEVA website Polyheal has been available in Europe since the start of this year. It would be great to find out how sales have been going....