Pressure Ulcers (also called Bedsores, Decubitus Ulcers), Diabetic Ulcers, Vascular Ulcers, and Xerosis

It all began in December 2005 when my mother (76) slipped and injured her back and pelvis. She was hospitalized for a month in a geriatric ward, and when she returned home, she couldn’t walk, and she became bedridden; after a month, I became acquainted with the term Pressure ulcers (Decubitus Ulcer). At first, it looked like nothing but a rush, but I called the doctor anyway, and she said it was the first stage of pressure ulcers; she gave me a prescription for a cortisone cream and instructed me and the health care worker I’ve hired how and when to turn my mother on her side and a type of air mattress I had to buy and so on, I did all that the doctor ordered faster than the speed of light, two weeks later there were more red spots and even one or two blue ones, I got terrified, let me phrase that again, I got really scared, by then I already looked up pressure ulcers (Decubitus Ulcer) on the internet. The thought of my mother suffering from pressure ulcers made me lose lots of sleep.

I’ve decided that there must be a solution (here is the time to mention that my partner and I own a Dead Sea cosmetics factory specializing in treating Psoriasis). I asked myself, what really happens (in laymen’s terms) that causes the development of Pressure ulcers? I know that it starts with a constant outside pressure that presses the skin and flesh to the bones in areas like the pelvis, the lower back, the hips, the calves, and the heels; this constant pressure disrupts blood circulation and thus deprives the skin of receiving oxygen, nourishment and cell building materials it needs to live, once deprived of those things it withers and dye. This process includes loss of moisture, loss of elasticity, and loss of the skin’s capability to rejuvenate itself, so it gets dry. Dry skin cells dye and release substances that eat the skin/flesh away causing a cavity that may cause sepsis and death; wow, death is a very big and scary word (but it’s true, pressure ulcers can do that).

In stage one, where the skin starts to lose moisture and gets dry, it manifests in redness (looks like a regular rush).
A continuation of pressure leads to stage two, where skin cells begin to dye; this manifests as a blue brose-like wound.
Stage three is where the skin begins to peel off, and it looks like a red abrasion wound; the skin is already becoming necrotic.
Stage four is when the necrotic skin, or rather the substances it secretes, eats into the flesh, creating a cavity; this cavity may cause sepsis and death.
Now that I think that I know everything I need to know about pressure ulcers, I started to think of a solution, and it had to be a very fast one; I’m not a doctor, so I turned to logic and the lure of herbal medicine, logic says that Pressure ulcers existed for a long time before modern medicine and medical devices, so how did they treat Pressure ulcers in the old days? We will get back to this question later. The second thing is a pressure ulcer has got stages; why not treat every stage on its own? Why not treat the symptoms the outside symptoms and let the body do its natural healing process? And then it hit me; I must supply the body in every stage what is lost due to the disruption of blood circulation; all I have to do is find the right ingredients and the delivery system to deliver them to the skin; easier said than done. Maybe I can find the right ingredients if I’ll dig deep enough; I have Dead Sea minerals at my disposal; it’s the best cell building materials, but how am I going to deliver them into the skin without using any medicinal ingredients and working only with Natural Active Ingredients (NAI) how the hell am I going to do that and in such short time,

First, I turned to the symptoms:
1. Lose of moisture.
2. Lose of nourishment.
3. Lose of elasticity.
4. Lose of rejuvenation capability.

I thought back then that finding Natural Active Ingredients to provide answers to the symptoms above is easy, but it wasn’t because it is not skin in its natural state, and it acts differently; I mean, all the medical devices and all the physical treatments of moving the patient to reduce pressure and so on, they are good until the skin is the heart and changes its behavior and once it does the wound will develop eventually. I went through all of my books and notebooks, I spent hours upon hours on the net, and I realized that what prevented others so far from finding a solution is that the natural active ingredients first contradict one another in specific concentrations, and each one needs a different carrier as a natural delivery system, anyways to make a long story short, I actually produced 4 different types of creams, each to treat one symptom, and the caregiver I’ve hired and I had to apply them in certain intervals, and it was lots of work and absolutely not easy and convenient to my mother, but I had to, I didn’t even explain to her what can happen and how severe Pressure wounds can be. It worked, not as good as I wanted, but it worked; it kept stage one at bay, and after three months, even stage one disappeared, and I realized that continuous usage of the cream is actually a preventive treatment, but as my mother’s condition deteriorated (from her illness) it became more and more difficult for us to treat her. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a way to combine all four products together by the time my mother passed away in July 2006.