topical antibiotics

Years ago we had an ambulance call for a burn victim. Was a kid that had been mowing the lawn and caught fire while refueling. Before we even arrived the mother had poured honey on the worst burns which were on his right arm and hand. Our protocol then was wet dressings over the burns so that was what we did. Got him to the hospital and they had a chopper waiting to send him to the burn center. He was in there for a couple of weeks before returning home. The part with the honey required the least treatment at the burn center and had the least amount of scarring after the skin grafting. My mom used to use it for burns in the kitchen, like grabbing a skillet handle and it worked for that but I never dreamed it would work on full thickness burns at all.

Silvadine works really well as a topical antibiotic as well.

From what I understand silvadine is not recommended or used very much anymore but don’t remember why that is

It never would've occurred to me to use honey, but after I learned a bit about it, it makes sense. Cleaning it up would be a bit more difficult though.

Silvadine saved me an ER trip when I was badly burned on the back of my hand..been in my med kit ever since..

Years ago we had an ambulance call for a burn victim. Was a kid that had been mowing the lawn and caught fire while refueling. Before we even arrived the mother had poured honey on the worst burns which were on his right arm and hand. Our protocol then was wet dressings over the burns so that was what we did. Got him to the hospital and they had a chopper waiting to send him to the burn center. He was in there for a couple of weeks before returning home. The part with the honey required the least treatment at the burn center and had the least amount of scarring after the skin grafting. My mom used to use it for burns in the kitchen, like grabbing a skillet handle and it worked for that but I never dreamed it would work on full thickness burns at all.

Silvadine works really well as a topical antibiotic as well.

One of many reasons I have jugs of local honey in my food storage.

Terry