How to kill superbugs - Manuka honey

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Information about technologies that may help eradicate MRSA and healthcare-associated infections is offered to the public
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Medical Grade Manuka honey

A primary wound dressing with active honey

"Honey, I healed a wound..."

Dr. Rose Cooper*

"If the bees are making their honey almost entirely from the New Zealand tea tree bush,
then it's not surprising that it's very powerful medicine."

Grace Filby

* ref: 'Healing with honey - the secret of honey is out' by Dr Richard White, Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Tissue Viability, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and Grampian Healthcare Trust. This document states that there is substantial evidence for the use of honey-based products, including safety and efficacy. There are five main actions in a wound: 1. antimicrobial against a wide range of pathogens, including MRSA; 2. Debriding: removal of slough and necrosis; 3. Anti-inflammatory; 4. Reduces malodour, so improving patient quality of life; 5. Stimulates healing, even in dormant wounds, by growth of new tissues.

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of sterile manuka honey, also available as 'CE' marked Medical Devices in some hospitals and in community nursing.

In the following video, Dr. Rose Cooper describes the medical honey products that are available in the UK on NHS prescription and over the counter. She also explains why it is safer to use irradiated, medical grade products rather than standard manuka honey from a jar.

Evidence on safety and efficacy of Manuka honey is available for a range of wounds: leg ulcers, post-operative wounds, Fournier's gangrene, pressure ulcers, burns and many more.

Interview by Grace Filby whilst also researching the health value
of bacteriophages at the American Society of Microbiology's
General Meeting, Toronto, Canada, May 2007.
Sound recording: Michael Jozefiak

You can type in words like "nature", "manuka honey", "tea tree", "phytochemicals", "apinate dressings" or "essential oils" with bed sores, MRSA, HAIs, wounds, burns, ulcers, scars, insect stings, cats, dogs, horses.