Use of Honey as an Adjunct in the Healing of Split-Thickness Skin Graft Donor Site

Effectiveness of a Honey Dressing for Healing Pressure Ulcers

“…Its antibacterial activity clears infection and application appears to prevent wounds from becoming infected, providing a moist healing environment while preventing excessive bacterial proliferation or infection. 14,35,43 Similar to previous studies, 13 the authors found that honey dressings did not adhere to the wound. Moist wound dressings enable epithelialization to occur along the top surface of the wound, rather than underneath the scab, as occurs in dry wounds, resulting in a pitted scar.…”

Honey in modern wound care: A systematic review

“…In only 12 of the 55 studies (including 6 RCTs), honey is used as a single therapy [25,29,33,[36][37][38]40,41,51,[62][63][64]. In some cases honey was used after certain standard care therapies [63] or in combination with standard wound care [54,65].…”

“…Although several studies report that honey application reduces the costs of care [38,40,41,44,[47][48][49][50]64,[66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73], only one RCT actually calculated the cost-effectiveness of honey and the control therapy by using the Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Ratio (ICER), and it was found to be more profitable for the control therapy [27].…”

The anti-inflammatory and wound healing properties of honey

“…It may, however, be due to the sensitiveness of these nerve endings, which are more responsive to the acidity and/or the organic components present in the honey. There are many studies which report the pain-relieving properties of honey [26,[29][30][31][123][124][125]. In a trial by Al-Waili and Haq, they observed that the pain experienced with salinesoaked gauze and paraffin gauze was one-third more than with honey-soaked gauze dressing, but slightly more than with a hydrocolloid dressing [26].…”