Ointment Extract banana stem (Musa balbisiana) As An Alternative Healing Wounds perineum (laboratory test on rat)

Abstract

Background
Approximately 85% of women who have vaginal spontaneous birth experience perineal trauma, 52% are spontaneous lacerations. Sap of banana trees have several benefits because banana stem sap contains compounds including saponin, tannin, anthraquinone, quinone, lectin, and gallic acid.
Objective
To determine the effectiveness of extract oinment sap of stem banana (Musa balbisiana) as an alternative to healing perineal wounds
Method
True experiment with posttest only control group design, sampling using method Simple random sampling. The number of samples for each group was 6 with the total number of samples 18. Analysis of the data using the Friedman Test and continued with Kruskall Wallys.
Results
The Kruskal Wallis test results showed the average perineal wound healing in the intervention group was 0.00, while the povidone iodine 1.20 group and 0.80 dry wash group, p value = 0.011 (<0.05) which means the intervention group stem banana ointment, povidone iodine and dry washing method have significant differences in perineal wound healing.
Conclusions and Recommendations
extract ointment sap of stem banana effective for alternative to healing perineal wounds. It is necessary to develop ointment extract sap of stem banana in the form of a more practical container, which is a tube to avoid exposure to other substances when used.