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Here we are on Christmas Eve; our society still hasn't totally collapsed. Yeah!! With any luck, as you and your children and grandchildren go to sleep, you'll all have visions of sugar plums dancing in your heads.
However, after celebrating the birth of our Savior, when it's time to return to the daily grind and learn and prepare more, hopefully you'll remember the little tidbit of information shared here today.
Sugar, regular white granulated sugar, has a clinically researched and proven medical use. The study came about because an African physician working in a hospital in the UK noticed several patients for whom conventional drug therapy had failed to treat acute and chronic exuding wounds. And he wondered why the treatment he had seen his tribal doctor grandfather use in Africa was not being employed here. Didn't everybody know about using sugar to treat such wounds?
Apparently, such knowledge had been long forgotten in a world where we have lots of money and can afford expensive drug therapies. Unfortunately, some of those very expensive antibiotic therapies are failing the fight against MRSA. Sugar, however, has been shown to work.
If you have a wound, such as a diabetic ulcer on the legs or feet or a burn or cut, you can apply sugar to it. If you apply some and it immediately soaks up the fluid in the wound, apply more until you still have some dry sugar on top. Apply a non-adherent bandage and secure in place. Change the dressing every other day. Do not wash away or remove the old sugar when changing the dressing; that will also remove the very delicate new tissue that is forming. Just add more sugar on top. Keep doing this until the wound is healed.
In the case of a large wound, you may wish to put a ring of petroleum jelly around the edges to better contain the sugar.
So why does sugar work here? Well, there are a couple of reasons. First, the sugar draws the fluid in the tissue out, keeping it dry and better able to heal. Second, it creates an acidic environment, which is very hostile to bacteria. Third, it also helps relieve pain, which contributes to greater sense of well-being in the patient and less stress in the body.
(This research was conducted using granulated sugar in the UK. In the United States, well over 90% of sugar beets are GMO. You may wish to use only cane sugar.)
Our personal experience with using sugar to treat a wound is ongoing. About a month ago, one of my daughter's French angora rabbits somehow got some fiber wrapped around his back leg and pulled tight. By the time my daughter discovered this, he had chewed off hair and skin, we assume in an effort to relieve the pain associated with having the blood supply constricted. Everything around his foot and up to an inch above his ankle was completely gone. Because we couldn't ascertain the extent to which his circulation had been compromised, my husband and I gave him less than a 1% chance of survival. Surely infection would set in.
We discussed options with our daughter, who of course was feeling horrible, it was all her fault, etc. Coal didn't seem to be in pain, as long as we didn't touch that leg. We could try to treat him, but we were sure he wouldn't make it. Did she want to try? She did.
We tried honey, once. Honey and angora rabbits aren't a good mix anyway, and it was hard to get the honey on his foot without hurting him. Next we tried a mixture of usnea, juniper, and yarrow. In retrospect, I think I should have applied more than I did. We had a hard time getting the wound powder to stay with the wound, even with bandaging. During this entire time, the bunny was getting fresh greens from the yard, until hard freezes killed them, as well as usnea tincture in his water. Rabbits are extremely sensitive and conventional antibiotics often do more harm than good. Some healing was occurring, miraculously, but it also smelled bad--not gangrene bad, but still bad.
About eight days ago, we decided to try sugar. That was the ticket. We poured it on as best we could, trying to cover all sides. We decided it was easier to dip his foot in a bowl of sugar. The smell dissipated almost immediately. We think healing has accelerated. We're pretty sure he's going to make it.
(Update: I write my blog posts about a month in advance. I so wish we had taken pictures of Coal's foot and leg from the beginning, but I didn't think there was a point. There was no way this bunny was going to survive. However, survive he did and is doing. I now think he had chewed off all his skin and was left with nothing but muscle and bone when we began treatment. Today, seven or eight weeks after his injury, he has almost all his skin grown back. And it's growing hair as well. I'm still blown away by that. I figured even if skin did grown back it would all be scar tissue and no hair at all. He still has a few bandage changes in his future before he is fully healed, but man, what a difference. I'm amazed.)
(And another update: That bunny lived another two years, until dying of old age.)
Below, I pasted in the link to the article as well the pertinent portions of the abstract. I encourage you to read it.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21647066
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