Dressing wounds with honey - update.

[Gingernags]

You may remember this, after kicking her leg through a wire square fence and removing the skin so nothing was stitchable.

Wound after accident

A couple of weeks after using the honey dressing

Well this is it now... about 2 months on

Remember this wasn't healing, getting wet was making proud flesh worse and the heat and flies were a real problem, so we started using pure honey on a gauze dressing and bandaging over that.

Its been slow process but have to say I'm pleased with it. I think keeping it covered has meant its taken a bit longer to heal, but its kept infection at bay and we've never had antibiotics. Should be a minimal scar I think. Hard work but almost there now!

(the little blood spot is just where she's caught herself, we try to keep boots over it now)

 

[AmyMay]

I think that you've done an amazing, amazing job on this.

You'll remember that I was all for you having the vet, antibiotics etc.

Just shows you what hard work, perseverence, and good old fashioned common sense can do.

Well done

 

[old_girl]

I am a honey convert. It's amazing that nature has provided us wth such a brilliant healing material without help from man!

If anyone fancies a good long read, there's some evidence for honey here: (pdf FILE)

http://ijl.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/5/1/4...ourcetype=HWCIT

 

[Moggy in Manolos]

Yes i too have become interested in this honey thing old_girl,i have always heard of its healing properties but not in relation to horses,soam gonna have to keep some at hand
Excellent work on your horses wound coppertop

 

[spike123]

I had never heard of using honey before but seeing your pics I am very impressed.I think I may well just have to get some to keep up the yard with my first aid stuff.

 

[Alex_kate]

that is looking really good, i will def remember the honey thing

 

[barkinghorse]

So how do you use it?
Do you just slap on any old honey out of the kitchen cupboard and then bandage it?
Jo x

 

[henryhorn]

I'm forever banging on about how effective the honey and cod liver oil gauzes are on wounds, sometimes you have to give anti biotics too but they appear to heal with minimal scarring. Anyone interested they are called M and M Tulle dressings available via your pharmacist to order at around £12 for 32 (that's 64 days' worth of treatment at one every 48 hours...)
They were developed for human use in a severe burns unit and work really well on human leg ulcers too.

 

[PapaFrita]

That's brilliant!! Sugar works really well too in deep wounds. We treated one of our dogs with it after he got into a fight and made a big hole in his side. No scars at all although we had to spray fly repellent on it for obv reasons.

 

[guisbrogal]

I have been a huge honey fan for years. It is fabulous stuff...although I am not that keen on eating it