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From: Ron van Mierlo [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Sat 2006.04.08 05:06
To: Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology
Cc: Fredrik Leyon; Hans-Olof Holm
Subject: Re: [BEE-L] Review of Honey as Wound Dressing Now Online



Hi all

I would like to respond to the article "The Evidence Supporting the Use of Honey as
Wound Dressing" that now can be found on the Internet, as Mr. Hooper reported.

It is great to see a collection of reported evidence that honey does work as wound
healing dressing and most of us can probably recall many ealier individual reports
claiming as much, but the article in question missed to quote the honey source(s) for
each case.
In order to attach any claims to any particular kind of honey, to see how they do
compare in clinical tests and futhermore for a user to know which honey to select
for his or her wound problem it would be necessary to have the honey sources
quoted in future tests as well.

The report originating from New Zealand, most people might automatically apply the
Manuka honey as the medium that was possibly applied here, since Manuka has
had a name as honey with good anti-batererial properties, but don't forget that
the West-Australian Jarrah honey has been proven in the past years to have even
50% stronger anti-bacterial properties than Manuka.
With those big differences clearly existing for honey of different origin, the need to
know that origin is very obvious.

I used some Jarrah honey taken with me from Australia as wound dressing, just as
my own local Swedish honey and without any adverse effects on me, but the wounds
have always been superficial and clean to start with. There was no simultaneous
parallel treament done with any other medium, so I can't make any personal claims
yet for or against the use of honey.
You could wonder what kind of response honey would trigger in people that have
a history of allergic reactions, honey might then not be so harmless perhaps?

Ron van Mierlo
Sweden


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