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- From: largeman@aol.com (Beefta LargeMan)
- Newsgroups: misc.handicap
- Subject: Re: Sugar
- Message-ID: <25688@handicap.news>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 21:03:16 GMT
- References: <25578@handicap.news>
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- Reply-To: largeman@aol.com (Beefta LargeMan)
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- | DJ>Does anyone here have any insight on using sugar on pressure sores? I
- | DJ>am facing surgery which I REALLY don't want to have. It would
- | DJ>make my life much less stressful if I could heal without an
- | DJ>operation. Thanx.
- |
- | I never heard of that. It doesn't sound good to me. Any time you
- | put something on a open sore you may have a problom. Ask your Doc.
- | I only had 1 and they had me stay off it and keep it very dry. We
- | even put a sun lamp on it... Well aimed a sun lamp at it. Not to
- | close, you don't want it to get hot, just dry.
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- Powdered Sugar was used in the pre-antibiotic era to help control bed
- sores.
- It was sprinkled on the sheets.
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