#13-H(ID) Manuka Honey: Decreasing infections and Increasing wound healing of burns

STUDENT: Paige McClain

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ADVISOR: Khalid Almasloukh

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Keywords: Manuka Honey, Honey and Burns, Honey benefits, Honeys effect on burns, Manuka Bandages

Honey is a sticky, concentrated mixture that contains sugars that are produced by honeybees. The bees collect and use nectar from flowers or sweet juices on other plant species to produce honey. Honey has been used for nutrition and health since prehistoric times, along with increasing wound healing. The effectiveness of wound healing has caused a decrease in infections. Manuka honey comes from the nectar from the leptospermum scoparium bush (Saling, 2021). This tree is native to the area of Australia and New Zealand. Bandages containing Manuka honey have shown improvement on healing the burn site. Another property that honey has is that it can also be applied to skin grafts to increase the rate of healing (Subrahmanyam, 2007). Through research it has been found that honey is the preferred treatment when compared to sulphadiazine. This is evidence by honey being used 5.5 % of the time for treatment, while sulphadiazine was only used 1% of the time. In superficial and partial thickness burns, when treated with honey, these wounds showed better healing than when treated with sulphadiazine and (Subrahmanyam, 2007).

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