Honey for Your Wound Healing

Honey for Your Wound Healing

May 15

I think many people have known that honey have a powerfull benefits for human health, and honey can bring your health quality higher than before you consume the honey products. But in this article I want to tell you about honey that can be used for healing your wounds, even faster than any medicine.

All honey has some level of the antibacterial chemical hydrogen peroxide, which is produced by enzymes in the honey. These enzymes are easily destroyed by exposure to heat and light and also by contact with body fluids. It is now understood that some rare honeys have an antibacterial action that is separate to the peroxide effect, resulting in a much more persistent and stable antibacterial action. Such valuable honeys are resistant to losing their antibacterial activity when used in wound treatment and even have strong activity when heavily diluted by body fluids in a wound dressing. Furthermore, such honeys are now known to have a synergistic antibacterial effect with the hydrogen peroxide activity, producing a very powerful weapon against bacterial conditions.

Since 1991 it has been recognised that not all honey is effective in its non-peroxide anti-bacterial action and in its promotion of healing – in fact the variability between different batches of honey can be as much as 100-fold. In 1996 an organisation called TradeNZ, in conjunction with the Honey Research Unit, set about to establish a standard for the classification of antibacterial honey activity.

Manuka Honey creates a moist healing environment that allows for the regeneration of new skin growth across a healing wound, flush with the surface of the skin. This prevents scarring and deformity of the skin. If a dry scab forms on a wound, the skin cells can only grow across the wound, deep down where it is moist. However, Manuka Honey causes scabs and dead skin cells to lift off the surface of the wound, leaving a clean and healthy wound bed in which regrowth of tissue can occur.Manuka Honey also has an anti-inflammatory action which reduces the swelling around a wound. This improves circulation and hastens the healing process. Its anti-inflammatory properties also reduce the pain generated by the wound. Manuka Honey also reduces the amount of fluid exuding from the wound. Another factor is that its high sugar content draws lymph out of a wound which lifts dirt out of the wound bed.

Scientists have reason to believe that Manuka Honey even prevents the odor that is commonly associated with serious wounds and skin ulcers by clearing bacterial infection, and more immediately, by providing sugar to any bacteria present. In this environment, lactic acid is produced instead of the smelly byproducts of the degradation of protein.

Hopefully that from now you can get the alternative treatment for your wound healing types, and you don’t need to scared because this things has passed many test and nothing bad effects appear.