Honey is Potent Treat Chronic Wounds

There have been many studies that reveal the hidden honey as a natural herb for supporting the health properties. There are different types of honey available in nature, and is famous manuka honey.

Manuka honey is a type of honey that previously claimed experts can fight superbugs. Recent researchers at Cardiff Metropolitan University in Wales found that manuka honey is able to overcome the infection in chronic wounds, and " fight against " the movement of bacteria in the wound.

As published in the journal Microbiology, researchers say that manuka honey is not only able to completely destroy the bacteria Streptococcus pyogenes, but also block the action of the bacteria to be able to stick to the components tissue of the wound.

Streptococcus pyogenes is a normal bacteria on the skin that is often associated with chronic wounds ( difficult to treat ). The bacteria infect the wound will usually melt and form a " biofilm " or a barrier that prevents the drugs can not enter the wound.

Harvest Manuka honey produced by bees from the nectar of manuka tree bees forest that body in New Zealand and parts of Australia. Honey is also often used as an ingredient in wound care products in several countries. Based on research reports, manuka honey is supposed to inhibit more than 80 species of bacteria. However, the antimicrobial properties of honey have not been fully exploited by modern medicine, because of its mechanism of action is not fully understood.

Wounds infected by bacteria S. pyogenes is often difficult to cure because of the formation of biofilms that make antibiotics in penetrating work. This problem is also a trigger for antibiotic resistance. Research experts at Cardiff Metropolitan University in Wales showed that low concentrations of Manuka honey can prevent the initial formation of biofilms. Honey is also capable of killing up to 85 % of bacteria within two hours.

Researchers have shown that honey can interfere with the interaction between the bacterium S. pyogenes fibronectin and a human protein. "We found that honey can reduce the expression of the bacterial surface protein, fibronectin to inhibit the wound, thus preventing the possibility of forming biofilms of bacteria," said Dr. Sarah Maddocks, one of the researchers.

"This is a mechanism that can not be done by way of manuka honey minimizes the opening of acute wound infections and minimizing the formation of chronic infections," he added .