The Effect of Royal Jelly on Diabetic Foot Ulcers: A Scoping Review

Introduction: Diabetes mellitus is one of the main risks for human health in today's world. Diabetes mellitus is an urgent global health problem that is exacerbated by lifestyle changes, urbanization, and population aging. Foot ulcers and the resulting infections are one of the main pathogenic factors in people with diabetes mellitus. Dealing with this problem requires a combination of individual changes in lifestyle, improving health policies and increasing public awareness in order to prevent its complications and reduce its impact on society. Royal jelly, as a bee product, with many therapeutic properties and few side effects, is a suitable alternative to other drugs in healing wounds caused by diabetes. This review study comprehensively investigated the effect of royal jelly on diabetic foot ulcers. Materials and methods: This study is a scoping review. The study has been done in five stages, which are: designing the research question, searching and extracting related studies, selecting related studies, tabulating and summarizing information and data and reporting the results in foreign and domestic databases including: Information Bank Publications of the country (MagIran), Scientific Information Database of Academic Jihad (SID), Research Institute of Science and Information Technology of Iran (IranDoc), Web of Science, Science Direct, PubMed, Google Scholar, Scopus. Findings: Among ۵۱۰۰ articles, after targeting duplicate articles, ۳۳۴۶ duplicate articles were removed. By carefully studying the title and abstract of articles with inclusion criteria by the researcher, ۱۳۹۸ articles were removed due to being unrelated to the purpose of the study, and finally after studying the summary and full text and analyzing the articles, ۲۴۱ articles were removed and ۱۵ related articles. A review was included. These studies were reviewed to organize the findings into nine specific domains. Conclusion: The findings of this study showed that the use of royal jelly has a significant effect on the healing of diabetic wounds and will be an effective step in improving the health of these patients.

کلیدواژه ها:

royal jelly ، diabetic foot ulcer ، diabetes mellitus