Patch With Onion Extract and Allantoin for C-section Scar

This is an observational non-interventional study. Women who underwent C-section were consecutively recruited at University Hospital of Salerno. Taking into account the number of C-section the study population was divided into two groups: Group A included subjects without a prior history of C-section, group B subjects who had already undergone previous C-section. At baseline after stitches removal, scars assessment was made using digital photographs and the validate Patient and Observer Scar Assessment Scale (POSAS). After 4 weeks, during the outpatient visit, women from both group A and B were asked whether had applied some natural products on the scars or not. In this occasion, the C-section of the women who had applied a patch containing allium cepa and allantoin as well as those of women who had not used any products (who represented the control group) were re-evaluated as at baseline. The Observers were blinded. One of them performed the scars assessment at baseline, the other one after 4 weeks. During the outpatient visit an informed consent for participation was obtained by all the subjects costituing the study population. The participation to the study was voluntary

Inclusion criteria

• subjects undergone Cesarean delivery;
• age >18;
• voluntary participation to the study;
• informed consent release.

Exclusion criteria

• age <18
• hypersensitivity to any constituent of the patch;
• pre-term birth, obesity,
• gestational diabetes,
• hypertension,
• infections,
• dermatologic diseases
• use of both systemic and topic corticosteroids;
• no informed consent release.