Development of wound dressing material coated with natural extracts enhanced with growth factor for wound healing

Abstract

Medical textile is one of the rapid focused sectors of the global textile industry. Human prefers to be most comfortable in all the aspects which are highly expected in medicinal treatments. In this advanced technology developed world, the end users are very much aware of the health and hygiene lifestyle. With this advanced exposure, consumers expects for a wide range of textile goods finished with antibacterial properties. Even though there are lots of medicinal products with these antibacterial properties, at some points these products may give way to various side effects on the human body as most of them are petroleum based products. Conventional wound dressings made on textile products are highly absorbents and afford most positive wound healing conditions. In recent times, highly developed wound dressing materials were developed to give most favorable wound healing conditions and better functionalities that helps to maintain a suitable healing environment around wounds through different finishes on the surface of the dressing material. These types of wound care system gives way to a sustained drug release, moisture management, barrier properties and bioactivity. The development of drug delivery system in this traditional method is increasing in clinical applications. newline