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August 2000 by the Occupational Therapy Unit of COANIQUEM, a Chilean Corporation that helps burned children in Chile. The Corporation Pro Help for burned child COANIQUEM, is a private nonprofit Chilean entity, whose main concern is focused on the integral rehabilitation of burned children. It has two rehabilitation centers in Chile, one located in Santiago and the other in Antofagasta. Both receive burned children from all the country as well as from neighboring countries (Argentina, Bolivia and Peru). The ethics committee of COANIQUEM, authorized a protocol's design to evaluate a cosmetic product derived from the Chilean snail extract, which is commercialized, with an authorization from The Chilean Institute of Public Health, under the name of ELICINA ®.
This clinical study was done in the Occupational Therapy Unit of the Rehabilitation Center for burned children in Santiago, under the supervision of the Investigation Extension and Academic Direction of COANIQUEM. The study was previously authorized in writing by the participating patient's parents. The study began on August 1999 and concluded in March 2000. Below Left: September 1999. Right: October 2000. Compression was also applied.
    Below: before and after three month's treatment.  
 
Below: Keloid scars after 3 months treatment.  
  Conclusions The result of this clinical study concludes that 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). ELICINA ® acts favoring loss of pigmentation in scars and grafts and helping the quality of graft texture. 27% showed increase in all the evaluated aspects, 66% showed changes in two aspects and the rest showed no changes. Regarding pigmentation, 77,7% showed a significant decrease. No side effects whatsoever were observed using ELICINA ®.
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