Honey and Reduced Oral Mucositis

• The effect of different mouthwashes to prevent oral mucositis in patients with radiotherapy and chemotherapy: a network meta-analysis.

  • 2025-07-03
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 36
  • BMC complementary medicine and therapies 25(1)
  • • Zhixia Zhang
    • Jiating Song
    • Ling Li
    • Li Yuan

  • PubMed: 40611101
  • DOI: 10.1186/s12906-025-04930-x

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  • Reduced Oral Mucositis

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  aloe vera juice, Chinese herbal medicine, Bing Peng San, honey, Lactobacterium shorti, chamomile, riboflavin, rehabilitation solution, benzydamine, turmeric, aluminum sulfide, povidone-iodine, and chlorhexidine.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes