This is evidenced by a doctor from the University of Wisconsin, USA, which managed to help his patients avoid amputation. Now they designs to spread the honey therapy.
Put honey on a wound of the foot, is an alternative to keep away from amputation in diabetic patients.
According to Professor Jennifer Eddy of the University School of Medicine & Public Health, honey can kill bacteria because of the nature of acid, other than that honey is also effective to keep away from properties due to the use of antibiotic resistant bacteria. "This is important in the health world," they said. In this honey therapy, part of the new wounds can be oiled after cleaning dead skin.
Patients with diabetes were supposed to be seriously noticed early on the foot, to prevent the injury which resulted in his infection. Give serious attention to the foot by doing lovely control of diabetes that is diidap caused interference with the diabetic foot.
Disturbance in the type of destroy to the nerve & blood vessel destroy & infections that make people with diabetes experience numbness (numbness) in his legs. Because of that, usually people with diabetes do not recognize the injury on the foot for not immediately apparent.
Therapeutic honey has been used as alternative medicine in Europe, even in New Zealand this therapy used to treat insomnia. Professor Eddy got interested to try the honey treatment after learning the custom of the medical use of honey historicallyin the past.
They began experimenting since two years ago. "I started trying this therapy after all treatment failed. Since they use honey, use of all types of antibiotics they cease it & succeed, "he said. Until now the research is still ongoing & is expected to be done in 2008 or 2009.
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