Coffee Grounds are Nontraumatic for External Wound Healing

Abstract

A 17-year-old girl, suffering from juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, has been taking corticosteroids every day since she was a toddler. She had to have her right foot amputated due to an infected gangrene. Regrettably, an infection complicated the amputation wound. Silver sulfadiazine cream, which required daily changes, treated the wound. The patient expressed dissatisfaction and pain over the daily wound dressing replacement and sought a new procedure using coffee ground that required longer dressing changes. We need to replace the coffee ground with gauze wound dressings every seven days. The wound healed with coffee ground at the end of week 4. We did not give any antibiotic, as there was no indication. Our research indicated that wound tissue contact with coffee grounds has not caused allergic reactions or pain until the wound healed, because coffee has robust antibacterial, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory abilities, and does not harm anyone or anything.