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Q. I want to thank you for the "sugar cure" column. I had a toe amputated in March, 2006, and here it is November, 2007, and it still is not healed. I read your column about using sugar for wound healing, took it to my wound treatment appointment, and asked the doctor about it. She said, "Nothing else is helping, so go for it. It couldn't hurt." I applied the first treatment on a Friday afternoon and by Monday afternoon the improvement was very noticeable. At my next doctor's appointment, she was very impressed.
I mixed the sugar into Polysporin and applied it. The improvement was so great that my doctor even gave me permission to shower without a bag on my foot. I had not done that in well over two years. Healing has slowed but it continues. Thank you!
A. We first found this old-fashioned approach in the medical literature two decades ago (Southern Medical Journal, Nov., 1981). There has been little research on it since then, but research in Africa suggests that both honey and sugar may be helpful (Journal of Wound Care, July, 2007). Medical supervision is essential whenever difficult wounds are treated.
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Manuka honey, with a high UMF, has been medically proven to be brilliant at healing wounds... (& I can vouch for this from personal experience!!).
I cared for my mother in my home. One time she had a bedsore. After cleaning the area with peroxide, rinsing with normal saline, I applied honey - in two days or so, it was healed.
Thank you for your great service to us - really appreciate hearing all.
Marie
Honey has been used forever as a wound care treatment. Even the ancient Egyptians used honey to dress their wounds and lacerations.
I spent some time working In Papua New Guinea, and managed to get a tropical ulcer on my left shin, right over the bone, my local doctor who was from New Zealand advised that I use granulated brown sugar as treatment, the brown sugar is not refined and helps fight off bacteria and the granules absorb any discharge, worked really well changed the dressing twice each day
John
I have been a nurse for over 35 years. In our experience with wound care, my fellow nurses and I found wounds that simply took for ever to improve. We used q4h drips, acetic, saline, dakins wet to dry in some decubitus ulcers with no results. In our desperation we used the brown sugar packing treatment and to our amazement those wounds started closing and healing at rate that we could not believe.
It requires multiple dressings a day in the beginning, becomes sticky and oozes a lot but the results were worthwhile. We did this in a hospital environment and we were able to reduce number of dressing per day and saw the results with in days too.
Since then I have been a true believer that natural therapies are sometimes more appropriate than many marketed products!
This is not new, it has been a resource for ages!
I have a wound that hasn't closed since 2007 this is 2012 should I add it brown sugar mixed with any other thing or just brown sugar only?