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UW Study Tests Topical Honey as a Treatment for Diabetic Ulcers
University of Wisconsin (USA), 5/2/2007
http://apitherapy.blogspot.com/2007/05/us-researcher-studies-use-of-honey-to.html

The sore on Catrina Hurlburt's leg simply wouldn't heal.

Complications from a 2002 car accident left Hurlburt, a borderline
diabetic, with recurring cellulitis and staph infections. One of those
infections developed into a troublesome open sore that, despite the use
of oral antibiotics, continued to fester for nearly eight months.

Experts believe that treating wounds with honey has tremendous potential
for the approximately 200 million people in the world with diabetes, 15
percent of whom will develop an ulcer, usually because of impaired
sensation in their feet.

Then Hurlburt's physician, Jennifer Eddy of UW Health's Eau Claire
Family Medicine Clinic, suggested she try using topical honey.

Within a matter of months, the sore had healed completely…

With funding provided by the Wisconsin Partnership Fund for Health and
the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation, Eddy is currently
conducting the first randomized, double-blind controlled trial of honey
for diabetic ulcers…

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