Manuka Honey and Improved Health-related Quality of Life

• Efficacy of Manuka honey oral rinse in treatment of xerostomia among elderly patients: a randomized controlled trial.

  • 2025-05-23
  • RCT
  • BMC oral health 25(1)
  • • Dalia Ghalwash
    • Ayman El-Gawish
    • Asmaa Abou-Bakr

  • PubMed: 40410721
  • DOI: 10.1186/s12903-025-06125-9

  4 Insights on

  • Improved Health-related Quality of Life

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  The most significant improvement of OHIP scores was seen in the Manuka honey group (5.50 ± 1.16) compared to the honey group (7.57a ± 1.02), and the control group (9.36ab ± 1.78).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  Manuka honey oral rinse used 3 times per day for 1 month