For thousands of years people have survived without the use of antibiotics. Many early treatments for infected wounds involved honey. Both the Smith Papyrus of 1700 B.C. and the Ebers Papyrus of 1500 B.C. describe the treatment of severe wounds and burns with coagulated milk and honey held in place by a muslin bandage. Later, granulated sugar was used to treat sores in both horse and humans. How these ancient people learned that both honey and sugar are effective in helping wounds heal is amazing. Today, a mixture known as sugardine in widely used to treat sores and wounds on horses. It has proved to be effective and is inexpensive.
Sugar by itself has been used and shown to be effective in the treatment for infected wounds.
But sugardine, a mixture of iodine and sugar, has proved to be more effective. The American Farriers Journal Special Management Report #1 “Using Sugar To Treat Those Nasty Wounds” stated the following:
One study was done over a 5-year period in which 605 human patients were treated exclusively with sugardine. In nearly all cases, these patients (whose injuries included ulcers, cat scratches and gunshot wounds) healed more rapidly with sugardine than any alternative method of treatment”.
You can purchase various sugardine mixtures at many places that sell medications for horses and other animals or you make it yourself.
Recipe for sugardine
- Table Sugar
- 10% povidone iodine (or betadine)
Instructions
- Mix one part 10% povidone iodine to two parts white sugar.
Add more or less sugar to make it the consistency of thick honey or peanut butter.
Put the sugardine in a container with a tight fitting lid. The mixture will need stirring now and then but it will never go bad.
It is my understanding that with a large open wound, you pack it with sugardine and then bandage it. Please understand that I am not a doctor and have had no specialized medical training. This information is for educational purposes only.
I remember when I was child, whenever you got a cut or scrape your parents treated it with an antiseptic. Today I no longer see it emphasized as much, but if antibiotics are ever in short supply, people will need to go back to this practice. So be sure to stock up on antiseptics and learn how to make sugardine.
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