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17

Benefits of Using Manuka Honey As a Wound Dressing

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By Frank W. Buonanotte

Honey has been used as a natural wound healer for many years. However, recent discoveries have concluded that one particular kind of honey, indigenous to New Zealand, contains plant-derived healing properties that sets it apart from other types of honey. Manuka Honey’s greatest asset is its antibacterial properties. Most traditional forms of medicine used for clearing infections can be damaging to skin tissue. However, Manuka Honey has been found to have no known side effects.

In addition to being an excellent source for healing infection, Manuka Honey also helps to prevent scarring. During the healing process, a wound will form a scab in an effort to prevent further blood loss. The problem is that newly forming skin can only grow below the scab. This creates a deformity as the new tissue is not even with the rest of the skin. However, the moist healing environment created by Manuka Honey helps to lift the scab, therefore, allowing for the regeneration of new skin to grow flush with the surface of the wound.

In some more serious wounds, patients notice that the wound begins to smell bad. Wounds most commonly associated with malodor include exudating wounds, chronic pressure ulcers, venous leg ulcers, diabetic/neuropathic ulcers, fungating, cancerous or malignant lesions and wounds with necrotic tissue. Wound odor is mostly due to the degradation of tissue or bacteria that release compounds and fatty acids. When a Manuka Honeyy-based dressing is used, the bacteria feed of the sugars in the honey and give off better smelling gases, therefore minimizing or eliminating malodor.

Manuka Honey also has powerful anti-inflammatory properties that help to relieve pain associated with wounds. Once Manuka Honey is applied to a wound, tissue inflammation and swelling is immediately reduced. Since pain is never considered a desirable experience, this could possibly be one of Manuka Honey’s more favorable qualities.

Perhaps the element that has brought Manuka Honey into the spot light as of late is its ability to destroy antibiotic-resistant bacteria such as MRSA and VRE. With the widespread concern of Staph infections and the lack of treatment alternatives, Manuka Honey has come through like a ray of hope, effectively healing such conditions where antibiotics have failed. News headlines around the world have described Manuka Honey’s ability to go toe-to-toe with this deadly infection. The best way to describe it is that, by osmosis, Manuka Honey draws moisture out of the bacterial cells, making it impossible for them to stay alive. This is why no bacteria has ever been able to develop a resistance to Manuka Honey, and never will.

Below is a brief recapitulation of Manuka Honey’s wound healing benefits:

* Antibacterial properties rapidly clear infection
* Causes scabs to lift, avoiding scar formation
* Eliminates malodor in more serious wounds
* Kills antibiotic-resistant bacteria, such as MRSA
* Heals wounds quickly
* Repairs damaged skin and regenerates new skin growth
* Anti-inflammatory properties reduce pain
* No negative side effects

For more information or to purchase Honeymark’s First Aid Antiseptic Lotion, call 1-866-427-7329 or visit www.HoneymarkProducts.com.

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Apr

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Manuka Honey Destroys MRSA in Laboratory Study

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A manufacturer of health care products, is utilizing a special type of honey that has been proven to destroy strains of bacteria that are otherwise impervious to antibiotics.

The medical industry has been turned upside down with the onslaught of cases involving antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria. Due to the microorganisms’ ability to mutate and become resistant to elements that are attempting to destroy them, medical professionals have been searching for an alternative solution to treat Staph infections and other hard-to-kill bacteria. Their prays were answered when a manufacturer of advanced wound care products hired BioScreen Laboratories to do some third-party product testing on their products in order to confirm their effectiveness in destroying this life-threatening bacteria.

Honeymark International is a skin care manufacturer that has found a niche in developing products containing Active Manuka Honey which is a particular type of honey that has been found to have extremely powerful antibacterial and antimicrobial properties. Honeymark hired BioScreen to perform tests to determine the effectiveness of their product in destroying MRSA. The result of the testing indicated that Honeymark’s Manuka Honey product does have antimicrobial activity against MRSA.

This is ground breaking news considering that there are very few options to treat wounds infected with MRSA. Manuka Honey kills bacteria in a different manner in which antibiotics do. Manuka Honey draws water out of bacteria, making it impossible for the bacteria to survive. Manuka Honey creates an acidic and sugary environment within the wound bed that bacteria cannot withstand. To date, there has been no bacteria that has been able to develop a resistance to Manuka Honey.

Honeymark’s First Aid Antiseptic Lotion can be purchased on their website and soon at retailers across the country. The company also plans on releasing similar products in the form of an Antiseptic Spray and an Sanitizing Hand Gel later this year. “We’ve been achieving great results with our wound product in healing Staph infections,” says Frank Buonanotte, CEO of Honeymark International. “There are currently no over-the-counter products that are as capable of healing seriously infected wounds. The antibacterial properties of Manuka Honey have far superseded those of any other OTC product on the market.”