傷口に砂糖を塗ると治りが早い

ジンバブエの貧しい地域で子供時代を過ごした人、傷に砂糖を塗る習慣あったけど英国にないことを知り、大人になって臨床研究してる。
普通の粉末の砂糖を掛けて包帯で抑える。傷口の水分を奪うとともに糖濃度高すぎて細菌繁殖できない

As a child growing up in poverty in the rural Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe, Moses Murandu was used to having salt literally rubbed in his wounds when he fell and cut himself. On lucky days, though, his father had enough money to buy something which stung the boy much less than salt: sugar.

Murandu always noticed that sugar seemed to help heal wounds more quickly than no treatment at all. So he was surprised when, having been recruited to come to work as a nurse for the UK’s National Health System (NHS) in 1997, he found that sugar wasn’t being used in any official capacity. He decided to try to change that.

Now, Murandu’s idea finally is being taken seriously. A senior lecturer in adult nursing at the University of Wolverhampton, Murandu completed an initial pilot study focussed on sugar’s applications in wound healing and won an award from the Journal of Wound Care in March 2018 for his work.

The hidden healing power of sugar