Q. I want to thank you for the “sugar cure” column. I had a toe amputated in March 2006 and here it is November 2007 and it still is not healed. I read your column about using sugar for wound healing took it to my wound treatment appointment and asked the doctor about it.
She said “Nothing else is helping so go for it. It couldn’t hurt.” I applied the first treatment on a Friday afternoon and by Monday afternoon the improvement was very noticeable. At my next doctor’s appointment she was very impressed.
I mixed the sugar into Polysporin and applied it. The improvement was so great that my doctor even gave me permission to shower without a bag on my foot. I had not done that in well over two years. Healing has slowed but it continues. Thank you!
I spent some time working in Papua New Guinea and managed to get a tropical ulcer on my left shin right over the bone my local doctor who was from New Zealand advised that I use granulated brown sugar as treatment the brown sugar is not refined and helps fight off bacteria and the granules absorb any discharge worked really well changed the dressing twice each day
John
I have been a nurse for over 35 years. In our experience with wound care my fellow nurses and I found wounds that simply took for ever to improve. We used q4h drips acetic saline dakins wet to dry in some decubitus ulcers with no results. In our desperation we used the brown sugar packing treatment and to our amazement those wounds started closing and healing at rate that we could not believe.
It requires multiple dressings a day in the beginning becomes sticky and oozes a lot but the results were worthwhile. We did this in a hospital environment and we were able to reduce number of dressing per day and saw the results with in days too.