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Date: Sat Mar 02 2002 - 19:52:10 EST
> COLIN,
> NOT Pasteurized is exactly the PROBLEM!
> Please everybody stop smearing stuff on your wounds/burns.
> Your skin needs OXYGEN to heal. No kidding. Ask somebody who
> has actually done some study on the issue. Preventing the
> air from reaching a wound PREVENTS healing.
> The story about somebody's burn healing better with honey
> than with some cream simply means the cream did a better job
> of insulating the wound from OXYGEN!
> And the narrative supports that.
>
> Eric Thompson
This was not theory, or opinion, or medical advise. I was reporting what I
saw with my own eyes. Left uncovered there was no discernable healing.
Triple antibiotic ointment produced no obvious healing. The honey worked in
an hour or two. You use oxygen if you want to. I'm sticking to honey,
honey.
Colin Foster,
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