Sugar pills help wounds heal even when antibiotics are

The traditional method of using embankment on wounds has long existed in Africa - where the poor cannot afford expensive drugs. But does it have a scientific basis?

In the poor countryside of Zimbabwe, young Moses Murandu observed that using sugar to cover the wound will help it heal rather than leave it to nature.

But later, when he was able to work at the British Health System (NHS), Dr. Moses saw little of the advanced medicine that used healing. He decided to study this carefully. Finally, in March 2018, Moses' initial experiment was successful and awarded in the Journal of Wound Care.

Dr. Moses Murandu is determined to prove the miraculous healing power of the road.

Accordingly, sugar is a cheap, natural material that helps prevent bacteria from growing in the wound. It is worth mentioning that in many cases, even if antibiotics are "hand in hand" before bacteria, sugar still works.

This finding is interesting amid growing alarming cases of antibiotic resistance - a result of doctors' indiscriminate and over-the-counter self-medication.

However, from the discovery of Moses to the fact that the hospital is still quite a distance. First, Moses had to do more research but not enough funding.

Currently the funding comes mainly from pharmaceutical companies, but they do not see much of the economic value of studying sugar to replace antibiotics. By sugar - the most common type of material cannot be patented!

In the face of this difficulty, Moses intended to persuade the sponsor with magical cases in fact. For example, when he visited his hometown in Africa, he met a female patient with a horrible infection for five years in her leg.

Doctors all believe that foot sawing is the only way to cure it, but the patient is very scared. Moses tried to persuade her to go home and clean the wound and sprinkle with sugar, repeating every day. Up to now, the woman has kept both her legs.

Simple way: lightly sprinkle the sugar to cover the wounds of the wound, carefully bandage.Then wash and change bandages daily.

But there is another challenge that Moses has to solve. Is it possible for diabetics (often with foot and foot ulcers) to treat sugar? These patients need to strictly control blood glucose levels.

And this is Moses' positive assumption: " Sugar is saccarozo, and the body needs an enzyme to convert it into glucose, this only happens when we absorb sugar. Sprinkle sugar on the wound. out".

While Mr. Moses has continued his studies on patients, in the US, veterinarian Maureen McMichael has been treating animals for many years.

Exactly, Ms. Maureen started using sugar and honey for the wounds of dogs, cats and cattle since 2002 in Illinois. She said honey also works to inhibit bacteria more effectively than sugar, but of course the price is higher, so it is rarely used.

Honey heals effectively but costs more than sugar.

McMichael tells about a case of her successful success: "There is a wild dog attacked by a pitbull herd, and because he has no owner, it is difficult to use expensive drugs.

We put sugar and honey on 40 bites on each side of the dog. After only 8 weeks, luckily our friend recovered ".

Use sugar and honey to treat wounds for dogs.(Illustration).

Back to the story of Moses, it is interesting and amazing that a folk method from Zimbabwe has gradually been recognized in advanced England."I will study further, return home and bring this treatment more popular in Africa - where many people need it most," Moses said with determination.