Abstract
Background: Plenty of newer dressing material are available in market but mostly are not cost effective and not easily available especially in a rural set up. Honey being a traditional dressing material used from medieval time is cheap, readily available and can be applied easily by any person without any assistance. The objective was to study the effect of honey dressing on graft uptake.Methods: It was a prospective study conducted at Acharya Vinobha Bhave Rural Hospital, Sawangi, Wardha, Maharashtra, India from July 2014 to August 2016. The study contains 117 patients with ulcers over various aetiology and at various sites, which were divided into two groups; one group contains 61 (52.13%) patient where the wound was dressed with honey dressing while in other group 56 (47.88%) patients were dressed with normal saline. Outcome measures were calculated in terms of proportion of acceptance of graft on day 5 and day 14 after the wound is grafted. Patients were followed-up for a maximum of 30 days post grafting.Results: It was found that in 57 (93.44%) patients in honey group showed nearly 100% graft acceptance on day 5 while only 18 (32.14%) patients in saline group showed nearly 100% graft acceptance. On day 14 it was found that in honey group 45 (73.77%) patients showed nearly 100% graft acceptance while only 8 (14.29%) patients in saline group showed nearly 100% graft acceptance.Conclusions: The present study concludes that wound dressed with honey shows greater graft acceptance as compared to wound dressed with normal saline.
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