venous leg ulcer - phage clinical trial

A phage therapy clinical trial took place in Lubbock, Texas during 2007 with approx 40 patients.

Grace Filby won a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship Award in the UK to visit and report on the health value of bacteriophages from the Republic of Georgia, Poland, the USA and Canada.

Grace records one of the patients receiving a woundcare treatment during the clinical trial with either phage or placebo. Then the wound is measured and dressed.

Blog, photos, report and further research and videos at http://www.amazingphage.info

Logo thanks to http://www.nixart.co.uk

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• clinic
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• leg
• ulcer
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• trial
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• research
• phage
• therapy
• bacteriophage
• experimental
• design
• silver
• acticoat
• dressing
• antimicrobial
• placebo
• Texas
• south
• west
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• wound
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• center
• Lubbock
• patient
• Grace
• Filby

[UniverseKeeper1]

What is the name of this hospital??

My dad is suffering from this same thing.

:,[

[pinknonsense]

@UniverseKeeper1

It was the South West Regional Wound Care Center.

[pinknonsense]

Yes, I don't know which of the groups she was in - phage or placebo. The phage would have been in the watery liquid being applied by the doctor, with ultrasound.

It was great to see the mathematical evidence that, in just one week, the wound had actually reduced in size by 9.8%!

[UniverseKeeper1]

@pinknonsense

thx, MAYBE they can help ...

[DanceableArt]

Oh My God. Even with local anesthetic that's gotta hurt. My doctors tried once to perform the same cleaning, I refused. My cardiovascular specialist performed duplex ultrasonography to inspect my leg veins and was stumped. The only thing that worked for me was taking Serrapeptase. Phew, something finally worked. I had 4 ulcers for 2 yrs, and am only 35yrs.

[Surfarmia]

I can really feel the pain. My mam have a leg ulcer, but it's much smaller and it's almost heal. I hope your leg is good now. I going to pray for you.

//Kim

[u2m34get]

why do you use potassium chloride solution for cleansing?

[pinknonsense]

Yes, thank you for recognising this.

Phages were applied to half the patients but I think they were being immediately de-activated by the Silver Acticoat applied to all participants. The original video from my research shows the timescale. Perhaps the phages didn't have a chance to work in this US clinical trial.

[nixart]

Thinking about it! surely a silver `Acticote` patch would destroy the bacteriophage in the solution applied to the ulcer?

[nursey111]

OUCHHHHHHHHH  what a champ

[XaviersSecretary]

Queen Elizabeth the 1st had a leg ulcer. She must have had a very hard time with it's grotesque physical appearance. But it disappeared after a few years of having it.