Healing Pet Wounds with Sugar and Honey
Sometimes it seems that the oldest remedies are still the best, and that’s definitely the case with the use of sugar and honey for the healing of wounds and ulcers. Honey has been recognized for its healing properties for millenia, with written works from Muslim healers promoting its use as a wound dressing.
In fact, a study in Bonn, Germany, has found that the use of medicinal honey wound dressings encouraged ‘debridement’ and more rapid healing:
A three-year-long study at the University of Bonn, Germany, reported good healing rates in the use of MEDIHONEYTM as a dressing for wounds in 15 children with cancer, a population prone to non-healing ulcers because of weakened immunity after radiation and chemotherapy. Preliminary results of another clinical trial comparing MEDIHONEYTM with hydrogel dressings in 100 patients with chronic leg ulcers were recently presented at the European Wound Management Association conference in Scotland. Those findings indicated that the group treated with honey experienced a higher rate of debridement and significantly faster healing than in the group treated with another advanced wound care gel.
Read the rest here.
Another study showed that honey’s healing rate on infected, post operative wounds outstripped that of even antibiotics:
A single study in infected postoperative wounds compared honey with antiseptics in addition to systemic antibiotics after culture and sensitivity. For all outcomes honey was significantly better, with much shorter times for healing, eradication of infection, use of antibiotics and hospital stay (supplementary material). The proportion of wounds healed without dehiscence or resuturing was 22/26 (85%) for honey compared with 12/24 (50%) with antiseptic
My grandmother always used honey on any minor burns or wounds, both on people and on her dogs. She’d cheerfully slather us up with honey, then seal it with a thick coating of granulated sugar. She swore that this is what the famous Mary Poppins song ‘Spoonful of Sugar’ was referring to – the usefulness of sugar and honey as healing agents. Of course, she also thought that wrapping our throats in mustard paste cured bronchitis, and that fairies lived in the bottom of the garden, but in the case of sugar and honey at least it seems she was quite right.
This article on the Dogs in Canada website by Dr. Jeff Grognet, DVM, details a regimen for treating pet wounds with honey and sugar:
When applied to a wound, sugar lowers the water content to a level that prevents bacterial growth. However, infection control is only a small part of the beneficial effect of sugar. It also draws nutrient-rich fluid into damaged tissue, promoting regeneration of cells at the surface of the wound. As well, sugar decreases edema (fluid buildup) generated by inflammation, reduces odours from wounds, and accelerates sloughing of devitalized tissue.
Ultimately, a bed of healthy tissue – granulation tissue – forms over wounds managed with sugar. For this reason, sugar therapy is an excellent choice for wounds with large areas of skin loss (like those created when a dog is dragged or rolled along the road after being hit by a car). Ulcers and burns can also benefit from sugar therapy.
Go here to read the rest, including application protocol.
So cute it's going to hurt
OK, here it is – the world’s absolute and utter kyoooootest video.
Seriously, this is as cute as it gets. Just deal with, and move on with your lives as best you can, because everything after this is going to be a let down of earth shattering proportions.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Price Trial Aftermath – shutting down puppy import brokers
To understand why I’ve been devoting so much time to the Gina Price trial, you need to first understand the ramifications of this case.
This is the very first time that a US puppy import broker or re seller has faced Federal charges and a federal trial. This has long reaching implications for every other currently operating broker who has victimized buyers, and put innocent puppies through hell.
Attorney John Hoffman has worked relentlessly towards the eradication of puppy re sellers. Here’s an email detailing what they’re planning next, and how you can help.
Please – if you know of anyone who has been the victim of a puppy import broker or re seller, ask them to get in touch with John. Witness who are willing to testify are the only ammunition available to fight these scumbags.
Email for re distribution from Charlotte Creeley, co founder of the Wrong Puppy –
Gina Price of Rebel Ridge Kennels is currently on trial in federal court in Tennessee for abuses in connection with the sale of imported puppies and there is a very good chance of having investigations of other importers started if we can gather enough buyer complaints to show a pattern of fraud.The federal prosecution of Price and the fact that Brenda Moncrieff (BulldogRavine, APlusBulldogs, and HeavenlyFrenchBulldogs) has voluntarily surrendered her kennel license to the Pennsylania authorities and taken down her websites shows us that responsible breeders and owners and purchasers of French Bulldogs CAN make a difference. Price and Moncrieff were two of the most prolific and abusive of the puppy import brokers.
The Wrong Puppy (www.thewrongpuppy.org) is asking for your help. We need to gather as many complaints as possible about the purchase of import puppies from each and every abusive puppy import broker still hanging out their shingle. Warren James, one of the puppy buyers from Gina Price, set up a website called RebelRidgeKennelsIsBad.com (no longer in existence), which he used to collect complaints from puppy buyers. He had more than 30 complaints when the FBI investigation against Price started and more than 200 by the time the decision to prosecute was made.
We need to gather information and documents that we can use to justify prosecution of more of the bad guys. The information we need is:
1. What the buyers were promised, and
2. What the buyers received.
Documentation should include:
1. Purchase agreement and health guarantee;
2. Registration papers;
3. All emails and correspondence between the buyer and the seller or anyone working for the seller;
4. Vet records, including diagnoses and invoices
Please contact Attorney John Hoffman at canada@dslextreme.com if you have available documentation, or simply mail the documentation directly to his office at John E. Hoffman, Esq., 4035 Robin Hill Road, Flintridge, California 91011-3811.
Be sure to include any envelopes in which things were mailed, and records of any wire or Internet transfers of money in connection with the purchase of their puppy, because it is necessary to show use of the mails or wire facilities (including Internet and Western Union transfers) to show fraud by mail and fraud by wire, each of which carry sentences of up to 10 years in prison.
We especially need your help if you are a former employee who has information and/or copies of records. Please contact us! The Government can promise employees lower sentences or immunity in exchange for cooperation. Former employees (and current employees) can help break the cases wide open since they have far more information as to what was really happening than do the buyers
Cases involving puppies who died or who had serious medical problems are the most important, but we also want cases in which the promised registration papers were not provided and in which a promised health certificate was not furnished.
PLEASE, CROSSPOST FAR AND WIDE, GET THE WORD OUT TO EVERY BULLETIN BOARD, EVERY BLOG, EVERY EMAIL LIST, EVERY FRENCH BULLDOG OR BULLDOG MEETUP, EVERY FRENCH BULLDOG OR BULLDOG CLUB. WE NEED YOUR HELP!
Charlotte Creeley, Esq.
cccpups@aol.com
cccreeley@comcast.net
http://www.cccpups.com