The use of sugar to enhance wound healing

[CharlesHarris]

[River Song]

[Binnie]

Rectal rehydration....... wrong on so many levels!

due to the nature of my work, any cuts and grazes are normally at risk of infection, i learnt about using sugar to treat wounds.

I'd like to just add that it really DOES work, sometimes a cut that happened at work could take weeks to heal, now that i use sugar its a lot less, normally 5 days before the scab starts to lift.

This is a tip for life not just after tshtf

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can't edit, but it should have said

i learnt about using sugar to treat wounds from this forum

[Lightspeed]

Rectal rehydration....... wrong on so many levels!

due to the nature of my work, any cuts and grazes are normally at risk of infection, i learnt about using sugar to treat wounds.

I'd like to just add that it really DOES work, sometimes a cut that happened at work could take weeks to heal, now that i use sugar its a lot less, normally 5 days before the scab starts to lift.

This is a tip for life not just after tshtf

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can't edit, but it should have said

i learnt about using sugar to treat wounds from this forum

Thanks Binnie,

Real-life first hand feedback, this is exactly what we need.

[Scythe13]

We used to have sugar when we lost a tooth and it was bleeding. Mum used to say it stopped the bleeding and made it taste better. She was right. So I use a similar system still, with most cuts. I like to use salt first, then sugar. If that's not available, I'll go with proper medical stuff....boring!!!

[BeardyMan]

Got bitten by some Cornish beasty when we first moved here, had a black hole appear on the side of my leg, wouldn't go down and certainly wasn't healing. Looked like necrosis of some sort. I used Manuka honey for that, had it sorted in less than a week.

Pure sugar I used when I ripped my leg open when I was pissing around on the roof of the gun club, wound became infected (I didn't have any honey at the time) so I made a donut shape from a bandage to surround the wound, packed it with sugar then taped over as usual. Draws the infection out, and helps to heal the wound. Good stuff.

[Jonas]

I was taught to mix Betadine with the sugar. Irrigate the wound with sterile water once it becomes syrupy, then repack the wound with Betadyne sugar again. Repeat as necessary.

I was taught to use (and have used) providone-iodine solution mixed with granulated white sugar...

[MaryN]

We've used honey for healing for years, but does anyone know exactly how and why sugar works? It makes a cuppa taste wonderful, but with the current downer that everyone seems to have on our intake of sugar as a population, what is it that makes it such a good helper for healing? Anyone?

[Jan]

Hi, I haven't been on for a while, but I recently fell off a gang plank into a sharp edged rock, marina key in greece, landed on my muscle 3 inches below my knee, the wound is approx 5-6mm into the muscle, was treated by am Israeli army medic, a nurse and a GP on the scene, and now 10 days later all is well, it hurts, it has scabbed, but would the sugar solution help now, or should I just leave it to heal