PH Value In Chronic Wounds: Case Report

Background: Wound healing, particularly chronic wound, is a complicated, multifactorial process which can be affected by many internal and external parameters. The pH of the wound is an important factor that strongly influences on the success of healing process. Bacterial toxicity, biofilm formation, oxygen release, and protease activity can be affected by the pH of the wound. Methods: This work is aimed to discuss the pH of the chronic wounds. 100 hospitalized patients with chronic wound were randomly selected and the pH of the wounds has been measured by pH strips. Afterwards, the results were statistically analyzed by SPSS. Results: The pH values of chronic wounds have been reported and statistically discussed. The measured pHs has been compared with reported values based on literature. The wound type has been considered in the statistical analysis. Conclusion: The results showed that most of infected chronic wounds have an alkaline pH, while the healing and inflammatory phase occur in neutral pH.

کلیدواژه ها:

Wound Healing ، Chronic wound ، pH ، Infection