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Recession Proof GLP... More Antibiotic Alternatives
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Sugar Therapy for Wound Management
When someone gets a wound in the field, and medical facilities are not an option, the First Responder or Primary Care Provider must treat and manage the wound him/herself. One of the biggest risks with wounds is infection. Time is important as the wound needs to be treated immediately to provide the greatest chance of avoiding infection.
If the medic has access to antibiotics such as Cefoxitin or Unasyn, and the training and resources to use them properly, that's great.
If however the medic doesn't have the proper antibiotics available or can't afford them, then alternatives are indicated.
One such proven alternative is Sugar Therapy. Both sugar and honey have been used for thousands of years to keep wounds from getting infected, and to treat those wounds that are already infected.
According to the European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (1988, pg.525), the use of granulated sugar for the treatment of wounds is not only practical, but may also be a treatment of first choice. And researchers Jorge Chirife & Leon Herszage claim that granulated sugar is a nonspecific universal antimicrobial agent in their study of bacterial growth inhibition in concentrated sugar solutions:
[link to www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov]
Here are the basic steps for wound management with household granulated sugar:
1. Control bleeding (direct pressure & elevation, or a pressure bandage, pressure points, etc.)
2. Irrigate the wound (flush it out with purified water so it's free of contaminates)
3. Debride the wound (trim off any damaged tissue)
4. Bandage normally & wait a few hours to ensure the bleeding has stopped and is not likely to return.
5. Pour sugar into a deep wound & fill it completely. If it's a shallow superficial wound, form a salve with heated vegetable lard or Vasaline so that the sugar will stick to the wound. Don't use water.
6. Re-bandage the wound.
7. Change out the sugar by irrigation & repacking the wound from 1 to 4 times a day in order to refresh its action. Otherwise, it will become counterproductive by absorbing body fluid secretions, forming a diluted syrup that will become food for the bacteria, complicating the injury.
This treatment can take from several days to several weeks to heal an infected wound.
If you have Providone-iodine (PI) handy, you can increase the potential of this sugar treatment by soaking the sugar in the PI to create a Sugar/PI salve. Replace the sugar in the wound with the sugar/PI salve. And, whenever dressing the wound, add a PI-soaked gauze sponge directly over the wound, under the dressing.
The sugar/PI salve is also made commercially under the name of Sugardyne. It's basically a 66%-80% sugar, and 20%-33% Providone iodine (10%) salve used for wounds and thresh in horses. But, it's so easy to make, and so universal in application, that you can easily make up and store large batches yourself.
Here are a couple of links on Sugardyne/Sugardine:
[link to www.horses-and-ponies.com]
[link to www.medscape.com]
Sugar as a wound treatment comes from the ancient use of honey in wound management. The ancient Egyptians used to pack honey into wounds to keep them from getting infected.
Here's some info. on honey's use in wound management:
[link to www.worldwidewounds.com]
[link to www.appliedhealth.com]
This last link shows abstracts of different therapies, including honey as well as maggot debridement therapy (MDT).
In conclusion, if you're in a desparate situation, and you don't have antibiotics for wound care, you can still have strong wound therapy options in your first-aid or trauma kit. Make up a cheap homemade batch of Sugardyne, and keep a small crush-proof bottle in your first-aid kit. Then store the rest in bottles in your portable medicine chest, along with your herbal alternatives to antibiotics, other healing herbal preparations, meds, disinfectants, IV kits, surgical kit, and bandages, airways, etc. You do have a portable medicine chest, don't you?
Peace.
- referenced from Ditch Medicine, by Hugh L. Coffee, and The Herbal Medicine-Maker's Handbook, by James Green.
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