Medicinal Honey

Specialties NICU

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Anyone else using it? We just started using it a few months ago on surgical wounds and bad infiltrates...it works so well! Our wound nurses were excited to get the okay from our docs to try it.

The best part is that honey has antibacterial agents and the skin looks so good after using it.

We we are going to try it on the poor kids that have open wounds on their butt and see what results we get.

Specializes in NICU, Trauma, Oncology.
Can I ask how there is any antibacterial activity left if it's been irradiated? Isn't it just then a topical sugar application?

I was curious about that as well. Maybe they add leptospermum to the honey post irradiation?

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I've used it on adults during my clinicals and now my NICU just got it too and the nurses said they loved it!

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, PACU.

Articles about sterilization effects are on Google. I tried to link it on my phone and it won't work

lol

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Specializes in Cath lab, acute, community.

A friend of mine has epidermolysis bullosa - a disorder where basically the skin falls off, nothing holds it on. Anyway, her whole life she has been covered in open sores. It's basically the worse disease you've never heard of. Anyway, she started using medicinal honey a few years ago, and was one of the first patients in a trial for it. They noticed wound improvement with healing. It's amazing - nature delivers for us, yet again!

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