Doctors are finding one way that sugar can benefit your health: it may help heal wounds when antibiotics fail.

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As a child growing up in poverty in the rural Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe, Moses Murandu was used to having salt literally rubbed in his wounds when he fell and cut himself. On lucky days, though, his father had enough money to buy something which stung the boy much less than salt: sugar.
Murandu always noticed that sugar seemed to help heal wounds more quickly than no treatment at all. So he was surprised when, having been recruited to come to work as a nurse for the UK’s National Health System (NHS) in 1997, he found that sugar wasn’t being used in any official capacity. He decided to try to change that.
Now, Murandu’s idea finally is being taken seriously. A senior lecturer in adult nursing at the University of Wolverhampton, Murandu completed an initial pilot studyfocussed on sugar’s applications in wound healing and won an award from the Journal of Wound Care in March 2018 for his work.
In some parts of the world, this procedure could be key because people cannot afford antibiotics. But there is interest in the UK, too, since once a wound is infected, it  sometimes won’t respond to  antibiotics.
To treat a wound with sugar, all you do, Murandu says, is pour the sugar on the wound and apply a bandage on top. The granules soak up any moisture that allows bacteria to thrive. Without the bacteria, the wound heals more quickly.
Evidence for all of this was found in Murandu’s trials in the lab. ▪ ▪ ▪

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themaskeditor

It is difficult to believe sugar can heal wounds

Shalsilk

I was under the impression that sugar will not allow wounds to coagulate, which is one of the prime reason for diabetics to be careful when there is a wound. Thanks for info

Viney Mittal

Interesting.. :-)))

niya

it is not a recent discovery.it is known to Indians for long.i remember once my hand cut from a nail on a window.
my nani (granny)immediately placed sugar on the deep wound that had blood oozing profusely.it stopped within
a few minutes though it was deep.later of course i was taken to doc to get dressed.

if we get any cut in tongue due to our teeth placing sugar stops blood immediately n effectively.

parivijesh100

Sugar is important for brain. While promoting sugarless food, brain stops getting feed & it takes ftom musles thus affecting strength.. You save or fans like eyes heart & kidney at the cost of brain & muscles power.