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Honey Therapy
Doctor save man's leg after treating wound with honey
After getting a massive infection, it looked like that Franklin Loyn would lose his right leg. Aggressive anti-biotics (抗生素) treatment just weren’t working and the infection kept spreading wider and deeper. The 67-year-old kidney transplant recipient has a weakened immune system. It’s most likely the reason why he got the infection in the first place and why standard treatments failed.
The fear was that I have to trade my leg with the kidney and that was a very, erm a big concern.
Determined to save his leg, doctors and nurses at North LIJ Manhattan began looking for alternative treatments and decided to address Loyn’s infection with honey. Loyn beholded the healing powers of honey first used 4000 years ago by Egyptians to treat wounds began to work, allowing the infection to gently to be removed without the aggressive and potentially dangerous surgery given Loyn’s fragile state.
It helped to soften the nonviable tissues that we didn’t have to invasively cut into his legs to remove and it worked beautifully on him.
This isn’t the same honey you put in your tea. It’s derived from bee hives (蜂巢）in New Zealand and then treated with gamma radiation. It was /a/proved by the FDA in 2007 and God for Sally Loyn who is just so glad that her husband was able to avoid surgery.
They don’t know whether he would survive that so it was a life save and thank God for it.
The wound is still healing but it’s tiny now and Loyn can’t wait to go back to do with the things he loves like spending /the/ time with his grandchildren and going on vacation. In Manhattan, Rob Lawyer, Picks New at Ten.
