Honey kills even drug resistant bacteria....
Today's Post: Thursday, 4-7-2011
Every once in a while the email I get from Dr Al Sears has information I can use or even unusually important information.
(See www.alsearsmd.com .)
Today he had an article about the many ways that honey is good for your skin and can be applied to your skin.
But he included this too:
“Honey works well against bacteria for two reasons. The first is that its sugars bind to water molecules and deny bacteria the moisture they need to grow.
The second is a secret ingredient added by bees. It’s an enzyme called glucose oxidase. Researchers think it stops bacteria dead because it helps you produce hydrogen peroxide, a natural disinfectant.5
Honey is deadly to the so-called “superbug” bacteria that cause hospital infections. A study took bacteria strains resistant to antibiotics and exposed them to dilutions of honey. Formulas of only 40 percent honey killed all the harmful bacteria.
Even the newest bacterial threat, gram-negative bacteria, can’t stand up to honey. The researchers used only a 30 percent dilution on the five known gram-negative strains and killed all of those, too.6
And now plastic surgeons use honey to fix skin grafts in place and prevent complications, such as graft loss, infection and graft rejection .”
A. Modern medicine now depends on antibiotics that work.
MRSA and the new multiplier of antibiotic resistance found in India and likely spreading around the world and even found recently in India’s drinking water now threatens that.
In some applications, honey may turn out to be extremely valuable based on this research.
In addition to heavy use of checklists of ways to prevent infections in the first place being used 100 % of the time before and during surgery*, honey may be used to get effective infection protection in addition if this research is correct.
*(When checklists are not used and used consistently by each member of a medical team, surgeries and other medical treatments are subject to far more errors than was once thought, possibly over ten times as often, according to a recent study!)
For example, a room with a patient known to have a MRSA infection or carry it on their skin, might get a 3 part treatment.:
1. A complete and thorough cleaning with soap and water.
2. A complete and thorough treatment with a 40% honey solution which then sits undisturbed for a time. (The duration would need testing but the time may be as short as 5 minutes.)
3. Then the last step would be cleaning with a solution of chlorine bleach, soap, and water. The last step would be to clean off the “stickiness” of the honey treatment without adding back any bacteria.
Meanwhile, using a bit of dark honey on a cut instead of an “antibiotic” over the counter product at home might make excellent sense.
The bacteria in the cut might be already resistant to the antibiotic in the “antibiotic” over the counter product. And overuse of such products is one source of bacteria resistance to antibiotics.
Honey, by contrast, has a shot at killing even the bacteria already antibiotic resistant and looks far less likely to cause antibiotic resistance.
Dr Sears said that the darker honeys have extra antioxidant effects.
In cuts and wounds, that might help speed healing.
Dr Sears has found a source for a dark honey. Manuka honey from New Zealand is a dark honey which has these extra antioxidant effects. He keeps some on hand in case he needs it.
If you do get a cut that doesn’t need stitches or a trip to the Emergency Room due to heavy bleeding, wash the cut gently with soapy water first. That removes a lot of every kind of bacteria and does NOT increase antibiotic resistance.
Then gently apply enough honey to cover the injury and a bit of the surrounding skin and cover that with a bandage.
(Wounds covered by bandages, it’s true, do not scab over as fast as those only covered at first. But keep the bandage on until it heals. That helps prevent scarring. It prevents air borne bacteria from infecting the wound. And, best of all the overall healing is about 40 % faster!)
Today's Post: Thursday, 4-7-2011
Every once in a while the email I get from Dr Al Sears has information I can use or even unusually important information.
(See www.alsearsmd.com .)
Today he had an article about the many ways that honey is good for your skin and can be applied to your skin.
But he included this too:
“Honey works well against bacteria for two reasons. The first is that its sugars bind to water molecules and deny bacteria the moisture they need to grow.
The second is a secret ingredient added by bees. It’s an enzyme called glucose oxidase. Researchers think it stops bacteria dead because it helps you produce hydrogen peroxide, a natural disinfectant.5
Honey is deadly to the so-called “superbug” bacteria that cause hospital infections. A study took bacteria strains resistant to antibiotics and exposed them to dilutions of honey. Formulas of only 40 percent honey killed all the harmful bacteria.
Even the newest bacterial threat, gram-negative bacteria, can’t stand up to honey. The researchers used only a 30 percent dilution on the five known gram-negative strains and killed all of those, too.6
And now plastic surgeons use honey to fix skin grafts in place and prevent complications, such as graft loss, infection and graft rejection .”
A. Modern medicine now depends on antibiotics that work.
MRSA and the new multiplier of antibiotic resistance found in India and likely spreading around the world and even found recently in India’s drinking water now threatens that.
In some applications, honey may turn out to be extremely valuable based on this research.
In addition to heavy use of checklists of ways to prevent infections in the first place being used 100 % of the time before and during surgery*, honey may be used to get effective infection protection in addition if this research is correct.
*(When checklists are not used and used consistently by each member of a medical team, surgeries and other medical treatments are subject to far more errors than was once thought, possibly over ten times as often, according to a recent study!)
For example, a room with a patient known to have a MRSA infection or carry it on their skin, might get a 3 part treatment.:
1. A complete and thorough cleaning with soap and water.
2. A complete and thorough treatment with a 40% honey solution which then sits undisturbed for a time. (The duration would need testing but the time may be as short as 5 minutes.)
3. Then the last step would be cleaning with a solution of chlorine bleach, soap, and water. The last step would be to clean off the “stickiness” of the honey treatment without adding back any bacteria.
Meanwhile, using a bit of dark honey on a cut instead of an “antibiotic” over the counter product at home might make excellent sense.
The bacteria in the cut might be already resistant to the antibiotic in the “antibiotic” over the counter product. And overuse of such products is one source of bacteria resistance to antibiotics.
Honey, by contrast, has a shot at killing even the bacteria already antibiotic resistant and looks far less likely to cause antibiotic resistance.
Dr Sears said that the darker honeys have extra antioxidant effects.
In cuts and wounds, that might help speed healing.
Dr Sears has found a source for a dark honey. Manuka honey from New Zealand is a dark honey which has these extra antioxidant effects. He keeps some on hand in case he needs it.
If you do get a cut that doesn’t need stitches or a trip to the Emergency Room due to heavy bleeding, wash the cut gently with soapy water first. That removes a lot of every kind of bacteria and does NOT increase antibiotic resistance.
Then gently apply enough honey to cover the injury and a bit of the surrounding skin and cover that with a bandage.
(Wounds covered by bandages, it’s true, do not scab over as fast as those only covered at first. But keep the bandage on until it heals. That helps prevent scarring. It prevents air borne bacteria from infecting the wound. And, best of all the overall healing is about 40 % faster!)
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