Posted on 09/28/2016 6:34:34 PM PDT by Lorianne
Manuka honey could be a powerful new weapon in the battle against hospital-acquired infections, scientists have revealed.
Researchers at Southampton University found that cleansing medical equipment with solutions derived from the Australia and New Zealand-based honey reduced the ability of potentially deadly bacteria to accumulate on surfaces by more than 75 per cent.
The discovery could transform safety for groups at particular risk of bacterial infections, such as the one-in-four hospital inpatients who use a catheter, thousands of whom suffer urinary-tract and other infections each year.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Anything in excess, especially extreme excess, is usually not good.
Even water.
Thanks for the info.
I eat Tupelo honey almost daily. I know it’s very healthy but I wonder if it has similar properties to this kind.
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Best honey comes from Tasmania. After that New Zealand.
Thanks for the link, it was very interesting. It seems that the use of colloidal silver dressings is recommended only for nontrivial wounds and burns, because there’s a tradeoff with cytotoxicity and cellular regrowth rates. It doesn’t stop regrowth, it just slows it. So where its antibactierial and sterilizing effects are most critical, like severe burns or wounds, the recovery rate tradeoff is worth it. Especially with bad burns, infections are the number one problem and killers. But with fairly trivial burns and wounds, it’s not recommended in favor of having the wound heal as fast as possible. Again, thanks for the link.
Geeeeee, I wonder if someone is selling this s**t at a high price somewhere....
Latest media BS.
While all honey is good for healing and fighting infection, manuka is special. In a nutshell, it is honey made from the manuka flower, which is only native to New Zealand. The honey made from this flower contains a compound of three chemicals known simply as 'UMF' - Unique Manuka Factor - that has amazing antibacterial strength.
The higher the UMF, the higher the antibacterial strength (and cost).
IIRC, honey kills germs by producing small amounts of hydrogen peroxide. Hydrogen peroxide is already used in hospitals to kill germs.
Not true. I had an open sore on my ankle (circulation problem) and silver resulted in healing. It was applied in a wound care hospital setting. Great stuff!
Silver has cured wounds deep to the bone. Check it out...Google or other search engines are your friend.
Actually, the way I read it, the problem with silver is only when the fibroblasts are laying down the early matrix, so using silver when it’s not a deep cut or burn should be perfectly fine.
Interesting. I would not call a donor skin graft site “superficial.” Also, if the hospital is having to use cultured skin cells, that, too, does not seem “superficial.”
Maybe they mean something different by that word when speaking to grafts and such.
Maybe donor sites are shallow cuts? They’re definitely clean, so there’s that.
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Manuka is good, but oregano oil is far more effective.
The medical establishment hates oregano, because it puts them out of business as people learn to use it.
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True.
Colloidal silver is another thing that the Med establishment hates due to their loss of income.
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Even sugar has the same properties to a great extent, but the stickiness of Honey makes it ideal.
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The skin regrowth issue can be conquered completely by using slippery elm bark powder.
It even causes full healing of 3rd degree burns, including restoration of finger prints and skin smoothness.
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Total hoax!
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Hydrogen peroxide doesn’t stick around; its effectiveness is down to zero in seconds; the honey hangs around all day.
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