Surgihoney May Revolutionize Wound Care

Doctors Discover 'Super Honey' With Amazing Power to Treat Soldiers' Wounds and Kill Superbug Infections

By VALERIE ELLIOTT, The Daily Mail, 8/10/2013

'Super honey': A know honey has produced amazing results treating wounds and infections

'Super honey': A new type of honey has produced amazing results treating wounds and infections

A new honey has been produced that has had ‘amazing’ results treating wounds and infections.

The bio-engineered product Surgihoney was tested on babies, new mothers, cancer patients and the elderly for over a year in Hampshire hospitals.

Wounds and ulcers, including those infected with the superbug MRSA, healed within days, while the number of women who suffered infections after giving birth by caesarean section has halved.

It has also healed the wounds of soldiers returning from Afghanistan, and been used to treat acne and to protect the skin of cancer patients fitted with a catheter for chemotherapy.

Dr Matthew Dryden, consultant microbiologist at the Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: ‘It will revolutionise wound care around the world.’…