Family sugar remedy tested for healing people's wounds

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8. Has sugar ever been used to treat battlefield wounds?

Sorry to keep harping on this subject- It just gets to me when these "new scientific discoveries" are just rediscovered old wisdom.

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Sugar and honey were used to treat the wounds of combatants thousands of years ago. Battlefield wounds in ancient Egypt were treated with a mixture of honey and lard packed daily into the wound and covered with muslin. Modern sugar therapy uses a combination of granulated sugar (sucrose) and povidone-iodine (PI) solution to enhance wound healing.
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As with any traumatic wound, the wound is first irrigated and debrided. Hemostasis is obtained prior to the application of the sugar (PI) dressing since sugar can promote bleeding in a fresh wound. A wait of 24 to 48 hours before the application of sugar is not unusual. During this delay, a simple PI dressing is applied to the wound. Once bleeding is under control, deep wounds are treated by pouring granulated sugar into the wound, making sure to fill all cavities. The wound is then covered with a gauze sponge soaked in povidone-iodine solution.
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Sugardyne is a commercially available sugar/povidone-iodine com- pound. Its proven antimicrobial properties make it particularly useful for infected wounds encountered in the field.

Sugardyne® is a specially-formulated dressing composition suitable for use on a great variety and number of wounds, burns and ulcers.

"What is Sugardyne®?
It was developed in its earliest form by the battlefield surgeons of ancient Egypt some 4,000 years ago as honey and grease.

In more recent times, povidone-iodine was included in the formulation and the commercial product was called "Sugardyne®"---sugar for its most abundant component and dyne for power (as in dynamite, dynamo and dynamic).
That additional chemical, povidone-iodine proved superfluous and it was dropped from the formulation. More recently, the composition has evolved to include only two substances….powdered sugar, substituted for the Egyptian's honey, and cooking oil for their grease.

These two materials have proven to be powerful anti-bacterials and have been shown to be superior to all antibiotics in staving off infection; they have out-shined many of the much more expensive materials and products in not only fighting infection but in contributing to unparalleled healing as well."

http://www.sugardyne.com/index.html