I did a search and could not find this on the forum. Years ago our vet recommended we treat a horse wound with sugardine. Sugardine is a mixture of betadine and sugar. It worked well. I'm a curious sort so I researched it and found it can be used in human medicine as well. here is a article https://www.americanfarriers.com/articles/5053-use-sugar-to-treat-those-nasty-wound-injuries
What an interesting article. I will definitely be looking into seeing if I can acquire some for the medicine cabinet. Thanks for posting
I wonder how the sugar contributes?! Could be that it forms a reverse-osmotic gradient. It could pull-out fluids that exacerbate the infection. Maybe that's it. Ask a vet if they would use this on humans. We and critters do vary. And the location of an infection, wonder if that's a factor? I only know three people who have hooves. A horse can have wounds that tear the gut wall allowing fecal bacteria into the peritoneum, yet they will often survive this -- a human with the same injury will develop peritonitis, rot, and die. Maybe a pharmacist will know.
https://www.askaprepper.com/how-to-make-antiseptic-sugardine-to-treat-wounds-and-inflammation/ https://www.tngun.com/how-to-make-sugardine-antiseptic/ This last article confirms what thought could be the mechanism of benefit -- sugardine draws out the excess moisture. On our planet, get even a rock wet and something will start growing on that dang rock. Wet dead tissue is food for bacteria, thus during debridement, dead tissue is cut away. Putting maggots on a wound helps heal it because maggots only eat decay.
Yep, makes sense: "Knutson et al. said in a 1987 Southern Medical Journal article: “Wounds treated with sugardine differ from wounds treated with antibiotics. Sugar is not an antibiotic by definition, nor when used in connection with povidone-iodine. Unlike those treated with antibiotics, sugardine-treated wounds clean up rapidly; sugardine reduces edema, nourishes the surface cells and has no fetid odor. A Glu-Strider bar shoe configuration was applied to take all of the weight off the lateral hoof wall and to properly transfer this weight onto the frog. “The use of sugardine treatment seems to accelerate granulation tissue and epithelial tissue production, thereby covering the wound, burn or ulcer with skin"
Honey was my immediate thought actually. I remember it's been toted for antibacterial properties, especially Manuka honey, which is an Australian honey. It's incredibly (and I mean incredibly) expensive though. Not sure if the US has something similar. "Most of the benefits of Manuka come from the methylglyoxal in the honey. This organic compound helps to fight against some types of particularly harmful and antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Studies have found that it may help to inhibit growth of both E. coli and staphylococcus aureus bacteria. This means that Manuka honey can be a great way to lower levels of harmful bacteria in a person's body." https://ca.iherb.com/blog/health-be...WXlv1UdJG6kL8mLa9NhoCrWcQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
