Can raw honey applied to festering wound?

QUESTION: Can raw honey applied to festering wound? If yes, how can it be used?


ANSWER: Hi,

Nowadays, there is a trend to use honey in wounds among doctors, especially for infected wounds. However, in most of the cases, raw honey is widely used.

When you have festering wound, it means that there is an infection in it. For that reason, the procedure of applying honey on the wound is becoming more difficult.

First of all, you have to remove the old bandage from the wound. Then, you have to clean the wound very good and the hard part in here is to squeeze the wound.

This is made with the single purpose to remove the excessive pus hidden between the tissues of your wound. When you squeeze your wound, you have to clean it one more time.

Then, you are ready to apply the honey on it, try to apply this on every part of your wound no matter how painful it is.

After that comes the easy part, you have to put a bandage on it. You have to repeat this procedure every single day, for one or two weeks in purpose to obtain the needed result.

After one week of usage, the festering will stop and this is going to accelerate the healing process.

The effects of the honey on wounds are local and at the same time, general.

- First of all, the honey is killing all the bacteria in your wound interrupting the production of pus.

- Besides this, honey is containing a lot of vitamins and other nutrients that enter from the wound directly in your blood stream. In this way, the honey is stimulating your immune system to fight the infection.

Furthermore, the sugars contained in the honey will increase the speed of the healing process because it is providing energy.

All the best!

Dr.Alba