Healing Properties of Sugar
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6 Granulated sugar provides an excellent topical dressing for treating open wounds, especially those wounds that are contaminated. Advantages of using sugar include its rapid antibacterial action, enhanced tissue formation and epithelialization, and accelerated wound healing; it is also readily available and inexpensive. The use of finely powdered sugar to clean wounds was first reported by Scultetus in 1679, but the mechanism of action was not elucidated until the twentieth century. Many recent reports show excellent results with the use of granulated (table) sugar to treat contaminated wounds. Granulated sugar is currently used worldwide to treat human patients with contaminated wounds or infected body cavities, but the cleansing and healing properties of granulated sugar are not widely known in veterinary medicine. For many years, surgeons at the Ontario Veterinary College (OVC), Guelph, Ontario, Canada, have used granulated sugar to treat contaminated wounds in cats and dogs. Animals with these types of wounds often have associated problems, such as pain, shock, or sepsis, and these conditions must be treated appropriately prior to or during wound management. Sugar therapy is suitable for treating patients with degloving injuries caused by motor vehicle accidents; infected surgical wounds; necrotizing fasciitis due to Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Streptococcus canis, and other organisms; decubitus ulcers; self mutilation; burns; and other skin defects that require a healthy granulating bed to heal. No adverse effects have been reported with the use of sugar.
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