By Kyle J. Norton
Green tea or tea lotion may have a therapeutic and positive effect better than conventional medicine Framycetin and Cephalexin gramicidin (soframycin) in the treatment of impetigo, some scientists suggested.
The disease investigation was differentiated by a number of institutes including Baghdad University and the results of the studies were published in online literature.
You can view the abstract of studies from PubMed, by clicking any of the resources' links.
Impetigo is a skin condition caused by bacterial skin infection with symptoms of blisters and sores,
around the nose and mouth, and on the arms or legs. In some cases, it may appear in the facial area.
The disease infects mostly children.
In differentiated the effect of tea lotion against impetigo infected by bacteria, researchers at Baghdad University conducted a study with participated of a total of 104 patients, including 47 females (45.2%) and 57 males (54.8%) with ages ranging from one month to 40 years with a median of 4 years.
Patients were randomly assigned to the treatment group with green tea applied to the infected areas and the control group.
According to the diagnosis from the swabbed collected from patients, and analyzed by microbiology impetigo contagiosa, pure S. aureus, and a combination of S. aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes were presented in 94.3% and 5.7% respectively in all patients.
These results suggested that the prevalent risk of impetigo is mostly caused by the infection of S. aureus.
Application tea lotion, including green tea, demonstrated a significant effect in reduced infectious areas substantially with a successfully cured rate of 81.3% compared to the control nontreatment group.
In examining the 40 patients in the control group further assigned to 2 groups that received either an ointment containing Framycetin or gramicidin (soframycin), researchers found that Framycetin and cephalexin gramicidin (soframycin) exerted a potential a cure rate of only 72.2% and 78.6%, respectively.
The results suggested that tea ointment or lotion displayed a better effect in treating impetigo in compared to conventional medicine Framycetin and gramicidin (soframycin) without inducing any adverse effects.
Dr. Sharquie KE, after taking into account other co and confounders said: "(tea lotion) demonstrated the anti-bacterial action of crude tea in vivo, against impetigo contagiosa".
In the further evaluation of green tea's effect in reduced prevalence of skin infection, researchers at the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine Rochester showed that catechins found in green tea have shown promise for having antimicrobial effects, particularly in the fractions of (-)-epicatechin (EC), (-)-epicatechin-3-gallate (ECG), (-)-epigallocatechin (EGC), and (-)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG).
Researchers continued that the application of green tea bioactive catechin exhibited a variety of antimicrobial mechanisms and may be considered a potential for preventive and therapeutic purposes.
In fact, relatively low concentrations of ECG were found to sensitize methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) clinical isolates to levels of oxacillin.
And, Catechin gallates such as ECG also showed to intercalate into phospholipid bilayers, affecting both virulence and antibiotic resistance by perturbing the function of the bacterial process of invasion.
The results may be attributed to the green tea effect in reduced key processes associated with the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane.
However, further data collection on studies performed with human consumption during the course of infections, and studies on the occurrence of infections in populations that consume regular amounts of green tea will be necessary to complete the picture of its antimicrobial possibilities.
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Kyle J. Norton (Scholar, Master of Nutrients, All right reserved)
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published on line, including world wide health, ezine articles, article base, healthblogs, selfgrowth, best before it's news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
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Some articles have been used as references in medical research, such as international journal Pharma and Bio science, ISSN 0975-6299.
Sources
(1) The antibacterial activity of tea in vitro and in vivo (in patients with impetigo contagiosa).
Sharquie KE1, al-Turfi IA, al-Salloum SM.(PubMed)
(2) Antimicrobial properties of green tea catechins by Taylor PW1, Hamilton-Miller JM, Stapleton PD.(PubMed)
(3) The antimicrobial possibilities of green tea by Reygaert WC1.(PubMed)
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