A Systemic Review on Impact of Aloe Vera gel in Episiotomy Pain and Wound Healing

Abstract

Introduction: Child birth is the most memorable and marvelous period in women’s life. Giving birth of a child is coinciding with physical, physiological, psychological and emotional process, such as perineal incision, delivery of fetus, delivery of placenta etc. The pleasure experience is mysterious and its call for celebration. Episiotomy is the most common surgical procedure in obstetrics to ease the birth. It may be associated with wound infection and delayed wound healing. Instead of pharmacological method of treating episiotomy pain and wound healing, the complementary method such as medicinal herbs as ‘Aloe vera’ application as a natural treatment to reduce the pain level and enhance wound healing, which improves day to day activities as early as possible without any complications.

Objectives: This systemic review aimed to identify and discuss about various methods of episiotomy pain and wound healing process and specially to identify the impact on aloe vera.

Method: This systemic review was made by using the electronic database of MEDLINE and PUBMED, CINHAL, of articles published in between 2011 – 2021.

Result: The reviewed result shows complementary therapies are more effective on episiotomy pain and wound healing process. Among all, aloe vera has desirable effectiveness on reducing pain level and enhances wound healing process.

Conclusion: Effectiveness of cares achieved by application of natural herbs in complementary therapy and reduces the distressing symptoms and improves their health-related quality of life.