My understanding from the info I read on the sugar + Betadyne paste
is that the sugar is so "dry"
that it sucks the water out of the bacteria cells so quickly
that they explode from osmotic pressure.

-- 
Dennis Law
( aka Paul D. Law )
Brooklyn South Community Emergency Response Team
Logistics Section

On Jan 12, 2008 10:11 AM, Jeff Jamrosz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> While I believe the "ax" that beekeepers grind is about the antibotic
> properties of honey, there is large following in the medical field that
> understands that any 'sugars' added to wounds improves healing times.
>
> Surface sugars provide healing cells with disposable sugar energy.
> Otherwise these sugars would have to be pulled through digestive system
> and
> transported through the blood.  The immediate osmosis of sugar to the
> cells
> expidites the healing process.
>
> The cited study may not have found honey to be effective because of the
> way
> venous ulcers heal. They may not contain the same cellular structures that
> surface skin wounds like burns and cuts have that can adequately absorb
> surface sugars.
>
> This study should not, and probably will not discount any previous studies
> demonstrating the benfits of sugars applied to wounds.
>
> (I may be a little bias, I lost the top 1/4 inch off my thumb to my table
> saw, which healed miraculously back to normal.  I attribute that to
> regular
> clean bandages with a liberal dose of honey.)
>
> -Jeff
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