INVESTIGATIVE STUDY

SNAIL EXTRACT CREAM IN BURNS AND GRAFTS

Performed on August 2000 by the Occupational Therapy unit of the Help Corporation for the burned child, COANIQUEM.

Authors:

• Mariela González
• Pilar Egaña
• Natalia Muñoz
• Paz Correa.

The Help Corporation for the burned child COANIQUEM, is a private nonprofit Chilean entity, who's main concern is focused on the integral rehabilitation of the burned child. In Chile has two rehabilitation centers, one is located in Santiago and another in Antofagasta. Both receive burned children throughout the country as well as neighboring countries.

The ethics committee of COANIQUEM, authorized a protocol's design to evaluate a cosmetic product derived from the Chilean snail extract, which with the Chilean Institute of Public Health's authorization is commercialized under the name of ELICINA®.

This clinical trial was done in the Occupational Therapy Unit of the Rehabilitation Center for the burned child in Santiago, under supervision by the Investigation Extension and Academic Direction of COANIQUEM, authorized previously in writing by the participating patient's parents. The trial began on August 1999 and concluded in March 2000.

CONCLUSIONS

The result of this clinical essay concludes that the ELICINA® cream can help in the treatment of burned children with hypertrophic scars and/or grafts, independent of the affected body zone (face, neck and hands). The ELICINA® would act favoring loss of pigmentation in scars and grafts and helping the quality of graft texture. A 27% showed increase in all the evaluated aspects, 66% showed changes in two aspects and the rest showed no changes. Regarding pigmentation, a 77,7% showed a significant decrease. No side effects whatsoever were observed using ELICINA®.

Source: ELICINA.com