Medical Grade Honey Can Reduce Equine Surgical Site Infections

subsequently excluded from the study if they needed a second abdominal surgery four horses or did not survive for at least two weeks postoperatively 15 horses. This left 40 horses in the control group and 49 in the treatment group.
An assessment of the incision and postoperative complications was done at five time points 24 hours 48 hours 5 days 15 days and 3 months.
The clinicians report that a single intraincisional application of MGH gel strongly reduced incisional infection rate from 32 5 percent 13 out of 40 in the control group to 8 2 percent 4 out of 49 in the treatment group. No adverse reactions were observed with the subcutaneous application of MGH after colic surgery.
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The study was ongoing for one and a half years and in the end we realized that this Medical Grade Honey made a difference for the horses participating. The horses that received Medical Grade Honey were four times less likely to get a surgical site infection after surgery reports Kajsa Gustafsson DVM.
The authors conclude that intraincisional application of MGH gel on the linea alba was a simple and rapid procedure that was safe and did not result in any adverse effects. A single local prophylactic treatment with MGH in the abdominal incision during surgery significantly decreased the prevalence of incisional infections in horses undergoing colic surgery. They suggest that more research is necessary to explore this promising approach in indications outside the equine colic field e g. in surgeries with a high risk
of SSIs.