Re: RC: Sugar and Iodine (was First Aid Kit)

["C.M.Newell" <reshan@deyr.ultranet.com>]

At 07:43 PM 3/20/99 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>>  - What's the sugar supposed to do with the iodine?
>
>It's called "sugardine".  I've got an article about it an a farrier's
>journal.  The sugar literally "feeds" the cells in the area and helps
>them grow quickly to heal the wound.  Seems like in the article I had it
>was used to help heal a deep split in a hoof quickly.  A nurse friend
>said she'd seen Drs. use it.  Sounds disgusting, looked it too.
>

Huh. the explanation I'd heard was that the sugar was so hypertonic it
didn't allow bugs to grow in the area.
			C.


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