Using sugar for treating wounds

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When SHTF, sugar may just save you. While it may often get the flak for its link to diabetes, it has medicinal uses too as a recent study shows that sugar can help treat wounds and ward off infection.

 

The study emerged thanks to an African nurse working in a U.K. hospital. Moses Murandu noticed that conventional drug therapy failed to treat many patients with acute and chronic exuding wounds. His grandfather, a tribal doctor in Africa, used sugar to treat wounds, so he was surprised that nobody thought of using it.

 

Exploring the use of sugar for wounds

 

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