Study The Effectiveness of Honey on The Healing of Burns Compared to The Chemical Drug Silver Sulfadiazine

Abstract

In this study 30 white mice were taken and the mice were burned by an iron alloy(size 5 cm long and 2.5 cm wide) connected to an electric current after reaching theredness and placed on the mice's back. The mice were divided into 6 mice fortreatment with honey burning at a concentration of 100%, 6% of mice treated withhoney at a concentration of 75%, 6 mice for treatment with honey concentration of50%, 6 mice for treatment with chemical drug silver sulfadiazine and 6 mice forcontrol which placed in sterile cages to ensure no contamination of burns.The most effective treatment was honey with a 100% concentration. It was curedafter 24 hours (the first day). After 72 hours (the third day), the burn was fully treateduntil it was not cured, The least effective treatment is the chemical drug and honeyconcentration of 50%. Swabs were taken from the burns. The results showed that the1st & 2nd concentration doesnot containing any type of contaminated microorganism,While the third concentration, control sample and Chemical treatments was found tocontain two types of pathogenic bacteria (pseudomonas aeruginosa & staphylococcusaureus) witch cause infections in burned mice.