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Is it possible to use a 100% Medical Grade Honey in the premature babies?
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The healing properties of honey are increasingly established in modern medicine, especially in the treatment of skin lesions of various kinds such as bedsores, burns and drug extravasation. There are several studies on the use of honey in adult patients but, in the pediatric population and especially the neonatal one, there are no universal and certain guidelines. At the Hevi Pediatric Teaching Hospital at Duhok, Iraq, an extreme low birth weight baby, with foot injury from drug extravasation was treated with the use of Medical Grade Honey, 100%. After 28 days the lesion healed, without the use of surgical removal of tissue and without allergic complications for the patient. The use of honey in this group of patients must be further investigated and taken into consideration.
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Buzzi, F., Al-Atroushy, H. A. ., Yahya, N. B., Rwanduzi, H. D., & Maindi, S. (2021). Is it possible to use a 100% Medical Grade Honey in the premature babies?. Italian Journal of Wound Care, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.4081/ijwc.2021.80
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