Manuka Honey and Reduced Scar Pain

• Effect of Manuka Honey on Eyelid Wound Healing: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

  • 2017-07
  • RCT · n = 46
  • Ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery 33(4)
  • • Raman Malhotra
    • Kimia Ziahosseini
    • Cornelia Poitelea
    • Andre Litwin
    • Suresh Sagili

  • PubMed: 27429228
  • DOI: 10.1097/iop.0000000000000743

  5 Insights on

  • Reduced Scar Pain

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  patients reported scar pain to be significantly less on the Manuka-treated side than control (0.48 vs. 1.9, p = 0.005)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  twice daily