Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Persistent Bacteria Go Down [good news!]

Slashdot ^ | 5/16/11 | samzenpus

[FrdmLvr]

Interesting!

[miele man]

Very interesting. What about a diabetic though? Why not use honey. Tupelo honey, for example, is a honey that a diabetic may consume. I wonder if these researchers used or considered honey?

[bunkerhill7]

But Mary Poppins knew this 45 years ago-

`A Spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
The medicine go down
The medicine go down
Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
In a most delightful way`

[decimon]

Ping

[MortMan]

Honey is still sugar, but may not have the same metabolic effects curve. I’ll have to look up Tupelo honey (I’m diabetic).

[Keith in Iowa]

>>>Very interesting. What about a diabetic though?

1 tsp. sugar = about 5g. carbs. Meh. Easy to compensate for.

[SeeSac]

Very interesting. What about a diabetic though? Why not use honey. Tupelo honey, for example, is a honey that a diabetic may consume. I wonder if these researchers used or considered honey?

Perhaps you should forward your medical knowledge to the Mayo Clinic. Seems they are giving out different advice to their doctors and patients.

[Ditter]

I will be surprised to learn there is ANY honey a diabetic can eat without running their blood sugar way up.

[Jemian]

One of the treatments we use in the jungle (since there is a paucity of medical professionals) to treat jungle ulcers on the skin is to pack the ulcer with table sugar. It is amazing how quickly it works.

[Rudder]

Honey, dextrose, is a monosaccharide sugar. It will elevate blood sugar levels.

[Rudder]

Back in the old days of American medicine we used straight sugar on the wound to treat bedsores. Very effective.

[SeeSac]

Honey is still sugar, but may not have the same metabolic effects curve. I’ll have to look up Tupelo honey (I’m diabetic).

Honey is still sugar. Honey is Honey. Tupelo Honey is Honey is sugar.

[PiperShade]

Oh ! Gosh ! It appears mom’s advice makes sense after all !!! >PS

[Free Vulcan]

Sugar at very high concentrations is a bacteriacide.

[MortMan]

I looked up some info and saw that no particular honey scored a lower glycemic index than others. Honey may still be better than table sugar (it’s sweeter, and therefore less is needed, plus it has other properties that recommend it over refined sugar), but it’s not “free sweetness” for us extra sweet types.

[exDemMom]

Honey, dextrose, is a monosaccharide sugar. It will elevate blood sugar levels.

It is a mixture of fructose and glucose. Those are the same sugars obtained by hydrolysing the disaccharide sucrose (table sugar) into its component monosaccharides.

I think the only sugars safe for a diabetic would be those we can't digest at all. Unfortunately, I don't remember which sugars those are.

[exDemMom]

One of the treatments we use in the jungle (since there is a paucity of medical professionals) to treat jungle ulcers on the skin is to pack the ulcer with table sugar. It is amazing how quickly it works.

That would work because the osmotic shock of exposing the bacteria to the high sugar environment would kill them. (In simple language: the sugar would "pull out" the water from inside the bacteria, killing them.)

[singletrack]

I’ve used sugar for years on cuts and scrapes and it speeds healing measurably. The old remedy was honey and I hear that works well too.

[Rudder]

I think the only sugars safe for a diabetic would be those we can't digest at all.

Glue, plastic? (humorously).

You are right, it's mixture of fructose and glucose---thanks.