HONEY TREATMENT IN VETERINARY MEDICINE, WHERE TO?

Investigations into the microbial flora of wounds began in the late 19th century. Since then, improvements in techniques have facilitated the recovery, identification and enumeration of a wide variety of microbial species. The increased antibiotic resistance of numerous bacterial species isolated from various wounds and inflammatory lesions constitutes an increasingly important problem. Honey and propolis are bee products that have been used for centuries in traditional medicine (Ghisalberti 1979; Zumla and Lulat 1989) and have received attention from the general population because of their health claims (Dobrowolski et al. 1991). These products could easily represent an alternative to drug therapy, with both increased bioavailability and healing effects.