Surgihoney is utilized by British volunteer nurse Jill Brooks to a wounded patient in rural Uganda. Photograph: Surgihoney
The healing powers of honey have been identified about for 1000′s of years. But Surgihoney, whose normal antibacterial properties have been boosted, is proving hugely efficient at treating contaminated wounds and superbugs.
The honey is believed to perform by killing the bugs, removing dead tissue and pus, and then delivering a moisture barrier as effectively as nearby nutrition.
Honey contains vitamins, minerals, enzymes and sugars – all of which assist in the healing of wounds. Manuka is typically regarded as the most potent honey, but it relies upon nectar from a specific tree in New Zealand, limiting its supply.
That’s precisely the issue which has been solved by the developers of Surgihoney. They have designed a merchandise that can be produced from natural honey from any floral supply. They hope it will in the end turn into a worldwide wound-care merchandise that will boost lives in poorer nations.
Lead researcher Dr Matthew Dryden, an NHS consultant microbiologist, is optimistic that the sterile, health care honey can revolutionise wound care all around the world, lessen the use of antibiotics and provide an different to harsh chemical antiseptics.
Surgihoney speeds the healing of tough-to-deal with leg and foot ulcers, stress sores, trauma injuries and contaminated surgical wounds, in accordance to the analysis. Potential benefits include significantly less soreness and fewer amputations.
Dryden says: “Surgihoney is active against all the bacteria we locate in soft tissue wounds. The essential further is that it kills the bugs but doesn’t harm the tissue. Honey is a wonderful organic medication.”
Surgihoney can even tackle wounds infected with strains of bacteria resistant to antibiotics, he says, such as MRSA, E coli and pseudomonas. He describes honey as “turbo-boosted”.
Surgihoney, stored in 10g sachets, is merely squeezed on to wounds and dressed with gauze. Pilot trials (pdf) have been carried out in Hampshire in the Uk, Yei civil hospital in South Sudan, and Vailola hospital in Tonga.
Dryden was lead writer in a research that concludes: “As a wound remedy in the tropics, [Surgihoney] is an excellent, minimal-technological innovation answer which is easily stored, applied and ought to be cost-efficient.” And unlike a lot more sophisticated medicines, it does not need to have to be refrigerated.
Just before the pilot trials, Dryden’s research staff at Winchester’s Royal Hampshire county hospital carried out laboratory experiments on bacteria gathered from contaminated wounds.
The outcomes, explained in detail to the Federation of Infection Societies in November, propose that Surgihoney is far better at beating bugs than other honeys examined, such as Manuka and a medical-grade honey named Medihoney, although equal to antiseptics, silver and iodine, which can be toxic to healing tissue.
A British nurse and wound care skilled, Jill Brooks, has pioneered the use of Surgihoney in Sodo hospital in south-west Ethopia and Kisubu hospital in Uganda, in which she volunteers many instances a year.
“All the outcomes I have observed have been good some have been extremely positive with quick healing of wounds,” says the former lead tissue viability nurse for the NHS in Oxfordshire.
The normal nearby therapy of washing wounds in a weak remedy of bleach has a big disadvantage, she says. “It is quite excellent at killing bugs but is a very harsh point to use as it destroys the very good tissue and can delay healing.”
The achievement of the pilot exams paves the way for a bigger, randomised manage trial.
Surgihoney is currently being produced by businessman Ian Staples, former managing director of Halfords, the motor add-ons chain. He owned a farm in Chile with beehives that made honey from the Ulmo tree. Soon after a negative harvest, he and his son, Stuart, commissioned scientists to create Surgihoney.
The honey has been accredited for use in the United kingdom as a wound-care dressing.
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